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Re: [ECS] Phone wire? Tom Hutchins Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:38:41 -0500

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Thanks Dan,

Thought for second there I was going to have to rewire even though all
phones seem to be working fine. BTW I should have said there are 3 sets of 2
wire runs in the house, one to each jack.

Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Carrington <dc_grafx@microworks.net>
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [ECS] Phone wire?


>Old times had four wires.  Now days, they only need 2.  Many wiring jobs
use 4
>as a standard to allow two phone lines and extra wires for backups.  I
guess
>some only add two wires at which point you can only have one phone line on
that
>jack as is.
>
>> Tom Hutchins wrote:
>>
>> Anyone know how many wires should there be going to the phone jack? I
picked
>> up a new jack and the directions indicate connections for 4 wires but I
only
>> have 2 at each jack.
>>
>> Tom
>

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