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Posted by Nick Danger on September 24, 2007, 7:34 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?
If the wiring is reasonably modern and orderly, then each of the lines
probably went to an interface box in the garage or basement or wherever the
wires enter the house from the street. The interface box is just a little
plastic thingy stuck to the wall with a phone jack on it. Everything leading
up to that phone jack belongs to Verizon. The wire that you plug into it and
everything after that belongs to you. If you're lucky, then you'll find
several interface boxes right next to each other with separate wires going
into each one. All you'll need to do is to get a splitter (one male plug and
multiple female jacks) and then plug that splitter into the working
interface box and then plug all the wires into it. To determine which is the
working interface box, just take a phone out to where the boxes are and try
each one.
However, I would still go with the solution of getting a multi-handset
cordless phone and plugging the base unit into the working jack.
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Posted by Doug Miller on September 24, 2007, 7:45 pm
>However, I would still go with the solution of getting a multi-handset
>cordless phone and plugging the base unit into the working jack.
Why??
Five minutes to rewire the NID, and all the jacks in the house work on a
single line. What's the big deal?
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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Posted by aemeijers on September 24, 2007, 9:31 pm
>
>>However, I would still go with the solution of getting a multi-handset
>>cordless phone and plugging the base unit into the working jack.
>
> Why??
>
> Five minutes to rewire the NID, and all the jacks in the house work on a
> single line. What's the big deal?
>
Could be at the NID, could be at the wall blocks. In this place, when I
moved in, half the wall blocks had Y and B hooked to the center pins. Former
owner had 2 lines way back when, and didn't bother to rewire when he dropped
down to one. For the sake of the next owner, nicer to keep the color codes
consistent, and put all jacks on the correct pairs.
aem sends...
aem sends...
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Posted by mm on September 26, 2007, 4:55 am
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.
If I had two other people here, I wouldn't want them to be able to
listen to my line from their rooms. So of course, each of the three
lines went to one room.
All you have to do is go down in the basement and remove two sets of
interior wiring from their (dead) connections to the outside, and put
them on top of the outside wire that has a dial tone. Then that
outside set of wires will go to all 3 rooms and probably every other
room. (Either it was line number one, or Verizon happened to pick the
line that had only one room connected to it.)
You can use any corded telephone and if it has a modular plug on the
end, get a surface mount box, plug it in to that, take the box cover
off, and attach wires with alligator clips on each end to the red and
blue screws. Use the other ends of the wire to search for the dial
tone.
>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?
I don't understand this sentence, but see above.
>Thanks.
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Posted by =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Tekkie=AE?= on October 21, 2007, 8:54 pm
posted for all of us...
> On Sep 28, thumor wrote, in part:
> > Wow, Thanks a lot all of you for sharing valuable info.
> > To fix myself, I first need to identify the NID ( or SNID ) box.
> > Rest seems simple re-wiring and I am okay with that.
>
> Thanks from me, too, to all who posted in this thread, as I had the
> same question. But one followup (as, unlike the OP, I'm _not_ okay
> with simple rewiring :-) ). These are gonna be live wires, no?
> (Very little current, but still some.) So what do I use to handle
> them?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Hamm
>
>
Go to a major electrical supply - not the big box stores - and tell them you
want a complete ARC FLASH SETUP. That will do you up fine.
--
Tekkie Don't bother to thank me, I do this as a public service.
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