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Posted by Brian Attwood on September 1, 2006, 3:21 pm
benn...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Im having a bit of trouble adding a new phone line (number) to another
> room. According to the telephone company, the second line is up.
>
> At the outside junction box I see two cables coming from the telephone
> pole, with the wires from the cables going to a spaghetti of wires and
> screws at the top of the inside of the junction box.
>
> Just below this mess there is a left and right side with each side
> having: a jack (with a telephone cable plugged in) and just below that,
> four screws: Red, Green, Yellow and Black.
>
> (Im hoping I dont have to wire the spaghetti terminals to the four
> terminals below it myself)
>
> The left side has NO wires going to ANY of the R,G,Y,B terminals. and
> if I disconnect the cable that goes to the left jack, and plug in a
> phone, I hear NO dial tone. Strangely enough, I have reason to
> believe that the left side is my WORKING line 1. Even though the jack
> doesnt work, and theres no wires, I have no problems with my dsl or my
> phone inside the house. Im assuming the connection is being made
> somewhere in the bundled rats nest above the terminals.
>
> The right side, which I believe is the additional line that telephone
> company installed also has NO dial tone when I connect a phone directly
> into the junction box right termial side. It also has no wires going
> to any of the terminals below it.
>
> I have telephone cable that is going to the new room where line 2 will
> be, since the jack at the junction box itself isnt working (need a dsl
> filter?), but Im not sure where (left or right side) it should go.
>
> I know line 2 should be on the yellow and black wires from the phone
> company cable, but since theres two cables with two sides its all the
> more confusing. Im told that this house used to have 2 or more phone
> lines installed...
>
> Im pretty sure I know how the R/G (line1), Y/B (line2) works once the
> cable goes in the house and how to wire it to the modular jack
> depending on which line you want, but its the outside of the house that
> Im having trouble with.
>
> Any suggestions what to look for?
Did you try rewiring any of the existing jacks in the house to work
with the second line?
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