We now have phone service at the new house, with the same old number as of yesterday. Using the "number for life" feature of Vonage, we can keep that number as long as we use Vonage, even if we move out of the area. Which is weird.
The way the phones are set up is also weird; the cable comes into the basement just above the concrete portion of the wall and ends in the cable modem which is currently sitting on top of a utility cabinet for our tools and various hardware for the house. The Vonage box plugs into the cable modem and is sitting atop the concrete wall (the concrete part of the wall sticks out 1-1/2 inches from the framed part). Another cable runs from the Vonage box to our wireless router so we can connect to the Internet. And a phone cable goes to the base unit of the cordless phone, currently sitting on a chair.
All this will get straightened out in time, of course. The house is thoroughly wired for TV, phone, and computer connections, all terminating in a lovely tangle of blue and black wires suspended from the ceiling over the existing tangle of ethernet and phone wires. When other more pressing matters are taken care of, a small wall cabinet will contain patch bays where I can connect and re-connect the feeds to any room to the Internet, phone, and (eventually) satellite TV signals.
We have been without TV for several weeks now, and frankly much too busy to miss it. The kids have movies to watch that we've rented or checked out of the library, and the rest of us have a house to finish.
That will probably occupy us for some time to come.
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