Okay, so I have not had a land line in like 12 years. We are getting one installed tomorrow. So how do cordless phone systems work these days. Do I need only one phone jack and then everything else works remotely with an electrical out let only? Or do I need phone jacks through out the house?
We just purchased our home and the electrical was a hot mess and we have been fixing it. In many cases I've been decommissioning phone jacks because the do-it-yourself previous home owner put them everywhere! Sometimes two per bedroom!
I would want 3 plus one for each TV.
One to run all the cordless phones in the house.
One to run to the alarm system.
One in the basement that I keep an old-fashioned wired phone hooked up with, in case of electrical outage.
When we had DirecTV, the boxes needed to plug into a phone jack, so we needed one behind each TV.
Back when we still had a house phone we only needed one jack to run 4 phones in our home.
Like everyone else, we only need one for all of our telephones. However, we also have DSL internet service, and that requires a phone jack as well. So that makes 2 for us.
We had crazy wiring in our old house too, and when I got the phone ones redone we just had one jack installed. Base phone works off it and the others just need a power supply.
We bought a $5 land line phone at Target that I keep in a closet in case the power goes out.
We have several, but only use one ... In my husband's office. The other phones are wireless and just need power. We have phones like this ...
http://shop.panasonic.com/shop/model/KX-TG6445T
Only the base unit needs a phone jack.
Our cordless phone set has a main base in the kitchen. This is where it plugs into the jack. The set we have comes with 4 phones. Three of them have small recharging bases that require an outlet but no jack. (We only use two.)
If the power goes out, those phones stop working. We also have a corded phone plugged into a jack in the basement that still works even in a power outage.
Our house has at least 3 phone jacks. Possibly more, but since we don't use them I don't remember. What I do know is that the previous owners sure loved their cable TV. The bathroom is the only room that didn't have a cable line!
When we first built our house in 2000, before all the cordless phone availability, we had 4 land lines (we run our company from home) and jacks for at least 2 landlines in each bedroom, game room, library, and kitchen. Counting our cellphones (3 of us in family), we had a total of 7 phone lines for a while.
Not too long afterwards, we ended up with the Panasonic phone that had 1 main unit at 1 jack and the other remote phones only needed a power outlet. We worked this way for a few years.
Now I have 1 land line set up that we hardly ever use and the only calls that come into that line are solicitations. I use this line for my outgoing fax machine. We use our cell phones for everything else.
So if you are talking about the cordless option like the Panasonic... you would need 1 landline for the base unit.
Good luck!
We have 2 actual jacks that we use, one upstairs and one down. We also have a system where the main base station can send a signal to a base in our bedroom, no jack required. So potentially you only need one. We have 2 in part because we have a corded phone in case of a power failure. The multiple jacks may also have been a remnant of everyone having a plugged in modem in each room.
We have a cordless with 2 additional handsets which require outlets, not jacks.
We also have 2 wall phones.
We could manage with 2 cordless phones.
You only need one well-placed jack and the rest are wireless and just need electrical outlets.
Your main phone base, the one that should have a corded hand set, is the only one that needs the jack. The rest work wirelessly.
I got a land line specifically so we would have access to the outside world if our electricity was off, our cells don't work well here, so having that corded handset was a requirement of mine.
