[lug] Telephone Connection

[Timothy Klein]

Your telephone line only comes in on 2 wires, a tip and ring.  If your 
phone jacs have more than 2 wires, it is because the house was set up to
accomodate more than one phone line.  Some houses will have 2 pairs per jack,
some houses may even have more.  As far as which colors are for which line,
that I am not sure.  You'll just have to play around.  You could go out
the the SNI on the back of your house, and look at what colors you drop comes
in on, maybe they are the same (or maybe they are not, the outside stuff was
done by the phone company, but the inside was done by the builder).  I don't 
think it would be too hard to figure out.  Or you could just pay the phone
company $75 dollars to send out a tech -- or not . ;-)

Tim

* David (dajo at frii.com) wrote:
> We are having a second telephone line installed tomorrow for dial-up
> use.  Can anyone tell me which lines normally are used, please?  The
> current voice line uses red and green on the centre two of the six
> socket connectors.  The extension line to the telephone only has those
> two connections.  Are alternative connection extension lines readily
> available, or do I need a full six connector line?

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