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Hi macM1X,
Telecom Professional here.
You mentioned your moving your modem to the basement landing wall, have you done this? Once you locate it there, will there be a RJ11 telephone jack that will run to this patch panel of yours?
In essence for phone to work you can feed it to any punch down on the bix strip, but since you said you have an alarm system, if the alarm is currently monitored and designed to seize the telephone line when it places a call out, then you MUST punch down the telephone line from the modem going into the far right port. you also have an RJ31x port covered up with a yellow sticker, you would then connect that to your monitored alarm.
This rule only applies to the device (modem) feeding the phone signal to the patch panel must be to far right jack if you have an alarm, otherwise you would connect any of the other punch downs can go to any other jack in your house and feed a device like a phone jack or facsimile machine or what not
Telecom Professional here.
You mentioned your moving your modem to the basement landing wall, have you done this? Once you locate it there, will there be a RJ11 telephone jack that will run to this patch panel of yours?
In essence for phone to work you can feed it to any punch down on the bix strip, but since you said you have an alarm system, if the alarm is currently monitored and designed to seize the telephone line when it places a call out, then you MUST punch down the telephone line from the modem going into the far right port. you also have an RJ31x port covered up with a yellow sticker, you would then connect that to your monitored alarm.
This rule only applies to the device (modem) feeding the phone signal to the patch panel must be to far right jack if you have an alarm, otherwise you would connect any of the other punch downs can go to any other jack in your house and feed a device like a phone jack or facsimile machine or what not
