Creeva’s World 2.0

So join­ing into another step of the twenty-first cen­tury lifestyle — we got Von­age installed in the house. After hook­ing it up I am dis­ap­pointed that the Linksys PAP2 that I pur­chased for the ser­vice has very lim­ited options for con­fig­u­ra­tions. Since the doc­u­men­ta­tion assumes you would run the device via DHCP they do not list a default IP address for configuration.

Going through my DHCP server I man­aged to track down the IP address it obtained and man­aged to log in via the nor­mal Linksys default tight secu­rity — user­name admin pass­word admin. After this point I man­aged to change the device to use a sta­tic IP address.

After this I signed up for the von­age ser­vice and had phone calls deliv­ered through the home phone line. We do not usu­ally use the home phone line and off the top of my head I can not even tell you the phone num­ber it uses. So here is how we are going to wire the house.

From the main phone junc­tion box there is going to be a work­ing jack — from this jack we will place a DSL line fil­ter — from here we will place the DSL modem on the non-filtered side and a stand alone non wire­less phone and an answer­ing machine just in case. Behind the modem lies a linksys fire­wall that han­dles PPPoe dial­ing and behind here lies the Linksys PAP2.

From the PAP2 we fil­ter the other main phone line to the house into from the wiring closet I started in the base­ment. and from here all the phone wiring in the house will fil­ter through to pro­vide whole house phone cov­er­age through the Von­age device.

Whew.

The advan­tages of hav­ing a cen­tral wiring area in your house is the biggest ben­e­fit you can ever have espe­cially for instances like this.