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Re: [ECS] Phone wire? Tom Hutchins Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:44:05 -0500

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Alright all you phone wire experts! I'm trying to hook up a jack on an
existing set of phone wires. I do not get a dial tone on the phone. Is there
some way I can use a multimeter to test the phone lines to see if they are
live? If not I'll run a new set of wires but obviuosly I'd prefer to use the
existing set.
BTW I hooked up the red to red and green to green, hope that's right.

Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Ingo Pakleppa <ipakleppa@home.com>
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Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: [ECS] Phone wire?


>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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