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I recently signed up with PhonePower for my home phone service. My Packet8 contract was nearing its end. So thought I will try PhonePower. So far the experience has been very good.

Signing up was easy and quick. I got the 1 Year free Offer ($199 for 2 Years of service and a free cloned line). The box arrived soon, though I was not in a hurry. I still had a few month of service left from my previous service. I waited till my number got ported to PhonePower.

Setting up the Adapter:
There are two ways any voip adapter can be set up.

Connect the adapter to the internet modem. Then connect your router to the voip adapter.
The 2nd way is to connect the router to the internet modem and then connect the voip adapter to the router like all your other devices (pcs etc).

PhonePower instruction manual describes only the 1st way, but I prefer the 2nd way. All you have to remember is, you are plugging your voip adapter exactly the same way as your pc is plugged in to the router.

Now the steps:

Power off your modem/router
Plug the ethernet cable that comes in the packet to back of your router (exactly as your pc is connected to the router).
Plug the other end of the ethernet cable to the WAN port (not the LAN port, this is very important) of the phonepower adapter. If you plug it to the LAN port it won’t work
Plug the phone line to the adapter’s Phone1 jack and the other end to your phone
Power on the modem/router and then the PhonePower router.
Wait for 5 minutes, the PhonePower adapter will take a while to start up fully.
Pick up the phone and dial a number. If it works, you are all set.
Setting Up the Cloned Line (if your service came with the 2nd Clone line)
1. Sign on to the PhonePower website using your user id and password you created when you signed up.
2. Click on Modify Services on the left menu bar
3. On the next page Click on the ‘Manage Cloned Line’ button
4. On the next page click on the ‘Assign’ button
5. Connect your 2nd phone to the Phone2 jack of the PhonePower adapter.