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- From: chilton@hfglobe.intel.com (Court Hilton)
- Subject: Re: Adding a Second Phone Line
- Message-ID: <BxtGz2.6sy@hfglobe.intel.com>
- Organization: Intel Corporation
- References: <Bx8C3s.C70@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov14.062649.5014@weyrich.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:11:24 GMT
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- orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
- lton@fa
-
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- >In article <Bx8C3s.C70@news.cso.uiuc.edu> you write:
- >>I need to install a second line so I can have one for voice, one for data
- >>(can you guess why?) The installation charge for the labor of putting in
- >>a second phone line is a bit pricey, but the woman at Illinois Bell told
- >>me that I could do it myself if I knew how...
- >>Anyone know how this is done? I have some background in basic
- >>electronics(simple stuff like building a rectifier, etc...) but I think
- >>I could handle it.
- >>Any help would be greatly appreciated..
- >>Thanks.
-
- >Simple -- I did it when I was 14 and gave my father a heart attack when
- >he heard the phone ring in my bed-room :-)
-
- >Only two wires are actually active. Open up one of your wall sockets and
- >see the color coded wires and how they are attached to the socket.
-
- >Go to Radio Shack (or equivalent) and buy some phone wire and a socket.
- >fish the wire through the walls or run it along the baseboard, depending on
- >how much of a neatness freak you are, and attach the wires to your socket using the same color codes in the same places.
-
- >The other end of the wire needs to be run outside your house to the "service
- >connection". The phone company takes responsibility for delivering the service
- >only to your service connection -- usually on the wall outside your house.
- >If you are lucky, you will have four wires in your existing wiring, two unused.
- >In that case, depending on the quality of the original electrician, you may
- >already have the second pair run for you (different color codes on the
- >second pair -- I don't recall which is which). If you do have a second pair,
- >test it as follows:
-
- > 1) make sure that the second pair is not connected to anything at
- > the service connection.
-
- > 2) use an ohm-meter to make sure that the second pair is NOT connected
- > somewhere to the pair that is currently in use [in my current
- > apt. the idiot electrician joined them together somewhere
- > between my bedroom and the kitchen and I had to cut the extra
- > pair between the bed-room and the kitchen.]
-
- > 3) use the ohm-meter to make sure that the extra pair is not shorted to
- > itself.
-
- > 4) short the second pair together outside at the service connection
- > and make sure that inside pair now tests shorted on the
- > ohm-meter. If not, try a different wall outlet -- the extra
- > pair may only be connected as far as the outlet closest to the
- > service connection.
-
- > 5) if all of the above tests pass, then you are all set to have the
- > phone company make the connection. If the line doesn't work
- > after the phone company turns on the service, particularly if
- > the phone doesn't ring, try reversing the color codes at the
- > socket end of the second line.
-
- >Hope this helps :-)
-
-
- >orville
-
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