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Phone wiring thumor 09-24-2007
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Posted by aemeijers on October 9, 2007, 9:30 pm
DerbyDad03 wrote:
(snip)

> Do Not Buy This Phone Set!!
>
> Seriously - It's haunted or something. I bought that exact set at
> BJ's. I put the answering machine in the kitchen, a charger/handset in
> my bedroom and a charger/handset in each of the teenager's rooms.
>
> Within hours, all 4 handsets ended up in the teenager's rooms.
> Sometimes all 4 handsets end up in one room. I'll go collect them,
> put them back in their chargers, and within hours all 4 handsets end
> up in the teenager's room, sometimes all 4 handsets in one room. It
> never stops. I swear it happens even when the teenagers aren't home.
>
> It must be the handsets.
>
Chuckle. Teenagers are the best argument AGAINST cordless phones. Give
them away, and go back to hard-mounted real phones- one on kitchen wall,
with a short cord so they have to keep standing, and one in the master
bedroom.

aem sends...

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Posted by Harry on October 10, 2007, 11:27 am
wrote:

>> wrote Re Phone wiring:
>>
>> >Recently bought house. Phone jacks in almost every room.
>> >Ordered new connection from Verizon. Works only in one room.
>> >They say previous owners had atleast 3 lines. They had it wired that
>> >way.
>> >Asking for 95 for first line, and about 50 for each additional line to
>> >rewire!!!!
>>
>> >Anybody else encountered this before?
>> >Any solution / work around except wiring myself from inside using one-
>> >to-many jacks
>> >available in stores?
>>
>> >Thanks.
>>
>> How about one of those 4-handset wireless phones. Plug the base into
>> the desired wall outlet and spread the other three handsets wherever.
>> Like
this:http://www.amazon.com/Vtech-i6787-Cordless-Didgital-Answering/dp/B000...
>
>-- Like this:http://www.amazon.com/Vtech-i6787-Cordless-Didgital-
>Answering/dp/B000...
>
>Do Not Buy This Phone Set!!
>
>Seriously - It's haunted or something. I bought that exact set at
>BJ's. I put the answering machine in the kitchen, a charger/handset in
>my bedroom and a charger/handset in each of the teenager's rooms.
>
>Within hours, all 4 handsets ended up in the teenager's rooms.
>Sometimes all 4 handsets end up in one room. I'll go collect them,
>put them back in their chargers, and within hours all 4 handsets end
>up in the teenager's room, sometimes all 4 handsets in one room. It
>never stops. I swear it happens even when the teenagers aren't home.
>
>It must be the handsets.

Put hidden cameras in the teenagers' rooms and post the videos. Some
people would like to see those walking handsets.

Posted by N8N on September 24, 2007, 3:10 pm
> Recently bought house. Phone jacks in almost every room.
> Ordered new connection from Verizon. Works only in one room.
> They say previous owners had atleast 3 lines. They had it wired that
> way.
> Asking for 95 for first line, and about 50 for each additional line to
> rewire!!!!
>
> Anybody else encountered this before?
> Any solution / work around except wiring myself from inside using one-
> to-many jacks
> available in stores?
>
> Thanks.

sounds to me like the PO's of the house wired one line to the one room
that is currently working, and the rest of the house was wired only to
one of the other two lines. If you can find the point of connection
you should be able to just move wires around and make everything work
on one line. no need to call the phone co. in for an issue that
appears to be only inside your house. DAGS for "residential phone
wiring" and read a couple how-tos, you can do this.

good luck

nate


Posted by HeyBub on September 24, 2007, 4:47 pm
thumor wrote:
> Recently bought house. Phone jacks in almost every room.
> Ordered new connection from Verizon. Works only in one room.
> They say previous owners had atleast 3 lines. They had it wired that
> way.
> Asking for 95 for first line, and about 50 for each additional line to
> rewire!!!!
>
> Anybody else encountered this before?
> Any solution / work around except wiring myself from inside using one-
> to-many jacks
> available in stores?

All the interior phone lines terminate in the DMARC - the box on the back of
the house that the telephone company's wires enter. Your existing wiring
terminates in three places (for the three lines) but only one of those
terminal-pairs has telephone company wires attached.

Simply remove the wires from the connectors that have no TELCO wires
attached and move the wires to the live connectors.

Now:
--A = Telco
--a = Telco
--B =
--b =
--C =
--c =

New
--ABC = Telco
--abc = Telco

Where caps (ABC) represent red wires and lower-case (abc) represent green
wires.



Posted by Terry on September 24, 2007, 5:35 pm
> Recently bought house. Phone jacks in almost every room.
> Ordered new connection from Verizon. Works only in one room.
> They say previous owners had atleast 3 lines. They had it wired that
> way.
> Asking for 95 for first line, and about 50 for each additional line to
> rewire!!!!
>
> Anybody else encountered this before?
> Any solution / work around except wiring myself from inside using one-
> to-many jacks
> available in stores?
>
> Thanks.

Were all your phones working on the same number before Verizon?


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