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Re: [ECS] Phone wire? Ingo Pakleppa Thu, 18 Mar 1999 02:37:35 -0800

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Nowadays, six or even eight wires is actually standard - I have never seen
only two wires. In my home (1976), it's six wires, and most people nowadays
use CAT-5 cable for telephone wiring, which has eight.

In any case, each phone line only uses pair of wires, so you are fine. Just
connect your wires to the red and green wires in your jack.

Ingo

At 08:38 PM 3/17/99 -0500, Tom Hutchins wrote:
>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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