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Right now, the residence has two telephone lines:

-The first is the primary landline used for telephone service. This is what the new DSL service will be connected with.

-The second is now a landline dedicated to dial-up service. Service to this line will be canceled shortly, because it is not needed with the DSL upgrade.

Since the second line is physically the only telephone jack in the computer room, I want to connect this line into the primary line of the residence.

The woman at the telephone company said this is done by opening the telephone box attached to the outside of my house, and moving the wires. She said this was safe to to by myself and I would not need to hire a technician to do this.

It sounds like I will be able to figure it out, but since I don't want to break anything, I'd like to hear from others about how they have done this in the past.

2006-12-15 06:28:01 · 2 answers · asked by CS 2 in Consumer Electronics Land Phones

2 answers

The customer service person is on target: make sure all of the phone outlets are connected to Line 1 (typically either red and green (for two station wiring) or blue and blue/white (for CAT5 wiring).

If the only outlet in your house currently using Line 2 is in your computer room, I'd go into that outlet and see if the red and green wires in there already carry Line 1 and simply connect those wires in place of the Black and Yellow wires (representing Line 2). Then you won't need to fiddle w/ the wires all the way back into your network interface box (the grey box on the outside of your house).

I used to run the phone wiring in my parents house to manage the two lines, one for my folks, the other for me. I always maintained the standard color convention throughout my house, and swapped the wires in the phone jack if the phone or modem is unable to select between Line 1 and Line 2.

2006-12-19 23:43:50 · answer #1 · answered by gameboy christian 2 · 0 1

The customer service person is on target: make sure all of the phone outlets are connected to Line 1 (typically either red and green (for two station wiring) or blue and blue/white (for CAT5 wiring).

If the only outlet in your house currently using Line 2 is in your computer room, I'd go into that outlet and see if the red and green wires in there already carry Line 1 and simply connect those wires in place of the Black and Yellow wires (representing Line 2). Then you won't need to fiddle w/ the wires all the way back into your network interface box (the grey box on the outside of your house).

I used to run the phone wiring in my parents house to manage the two lines, one for my folks, the other for me. I always maintained the standard color convention throughout my house, and swapped the wires in the phone jack if the phone or modem is unable to select between Line 1 and Line 2.

2006-12-18 03:20:20 · answer #2 · answered by CMass Stan 6 · 0 0

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