We have at present telephone lines wired thru the shop building. We are thinking about subscribing to wireless internet and two telephone line modem/router. Is there a way to use existing telephone jacks without running the hard wiring thru the building? in other words, can phone lines from the router be fed back into the existing jacks in the wall?

Earthlink is not your local telephone company? You would need to contact your local service provider. If earthlink set up your DSL thru your local telephone company, you may have to have them contact them. Does your local phone to you or do you subscribe thru what they call a CLEC?

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line.
It needs an ADSL modem, a telephone line, and filters for all the phones in the house. Your existing telephone line must be enabled by your Telco to handle ADSL traffic. You can go on the internet and use your phone line.

Does it have a modem? I'm thinking you probably do not have a modem ... dial ups are generally a thing of the past. Fewer and fewer computers come with modems built in, deferring to a network (NIC) connection or wireless connection. A NIC connection looks like a telephone connection but the NIC (Network Interface Card) has 8 conductors while a modem would have only 4 or 6. Warning, NEVER plug a NIC into a telephone outlet. A NIC operates at a very low voltage ... if the phone rings while your computer is plugged in ... there will be a puff of smoke as 60 volts enter your computer ... guess what is next ...

If you have several computers and are presently taking turns plugging the computers in for a dial up ... I would suggest to you it it time for a wire or wireless network in your home. That way you can have all of your computers share your conenction ... though I will tell you in advance, your connection speed will be severly hampered due to the current speed limit of about 56,000. Cable, fIOS or DSL lines operate in the millions of bits. If you have this type connection ... you still need a modem ... just add a router to build your network, but you dont need individual computer modems.

If you are interested in building a network ... you will need a wire/wireless router and a modem. You would control the modem from a computer and you would install connection sharing from within that computer. This will allow the networked computers to share the connection you have. It similar to a client - server network in that one computer controls and then shares the conneciton with other computers. ... still it would be a peer top peer network (no computer is superior to any other computer)

Im starting to ramble ... if you are interested in a network ... research the topic and if you get stuck, post a question. There are lots of network "expert" volunteers who roam these virtual hallways.

Thanks for your interest in FixYa.com.

326 feet is a max run for cat5/cat5e cable. You would need a repeater for runs longer than that. Wireless will not work properly either without a singal repeater. You could look for outdoor repeaters and run a drop line to the 2 building but this will be costly

I havent seen any phone system that would not work with digital lines. You might have to twik it for a disconnect times for conferencing though. You might loose a line if power goes off.

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well i think u have to get a new wireless router because the router u r using right now is an adsl router u cannot use that router for this perpose because this router does not have an ethernet WAN port. the WAN port available on the back of this router is for telephone line. i'll suggest to get a new router. try to get linksys router because linksys router r more flexible.

Hi,

Does your Pixma multifunction printer have two lines in? for line 1 and line 2? Your active line should be in line 1 of course.

However, I do not think your printer is the source of the problem.

When the phone company turns off line 2 they can do it one of three ways depending on the generation of your local telephone system.

At the back of your home or in the office building there should be a telephone network interface box. Once section if open to the customer to do basic tests, the other is reserved an uses a security screw head to keep you out. You have either red/green and yellow/black or blue/blue-white and orange orange-white wires. Each color refers to tip and ring in telephone polarity. If these are reversed your phone will work but not well.

For your smart phone with two lines in, I'd check out at the box and switch the wires for black/yellow or orange orange-white. When these are reversed the 'polarity' is off but voltage would still be present. In your case, the smart phone MAY be reading the crossed wires and giving you a line open vs. a line empty/disconnected which is nearly the same thing.

If you still have the second set of lines connected to your phone disconnect them from the phone and then underneath the phone you MAY find a switch to hard set your phone for single line or double line.

Let me know how you make out.

Regards,
Worldvet

there are few options to test
Option 1) Check if the SSID and WEP key in the modem page
tally with your logon SSID or WEP key, because
limited connectivity issue happens when SSID and
WEP does not match
Option 2) Restart your modem
Option 3) Check wirings on telephone line , replace tephone line
with another telephone line and make sure the socket
plugged in from the telephone line is a BB tel number
and service has been paid promptly every month
Option 4) Change the wireless channel in the modem page to
detect the wireless device from 9-11 at 192.168.1.254
address in Internet explorer
Option 5) Bring laptop closer to the modem and ensure wireless
led on the modem is lighted and the wireless led from
the Laptop is enabled

Yes, if you have broadband you can get a wireless router/modem. This is a little box that you attach to the telephone line and gives you wireless access to the internet. You can use a wired router/modem if you don't wont wireless in your home.

There are 3 ways to connect to the internet: dial up, DSL, and wireless, both dial up and DSL require regular telephone line and wireless require wireless adopter and the software which goes with it, so since you don't have the telephone line you should go for the wireless internet service
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