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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 31 Dec 92 14:40:20 EST
- From: Ben Black <76672.2564@CompuServe.COM>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: About a Second Line in My Home
- Message-ID: <telecom12.927.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 927, Message 7 of 14
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- I've ordered a second line in my home for computer use. There is
- standard four wire cable in the wall (red/green/yellow/black.)
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- Can I use the unused pair (yellow/black) for the second line, saving
- me the trouble of running a new pair all the way to the network
- interface?
-
-
- Thanks,
-
- Ben Black +1 615 391 0681 home MciMail 541-3160
- 2734 Penn Meade Drive +1 615 871 5947 fax CI$ 76672,2564
- Nashville, TN 37214 USA Internet Ben_Black@mcimail.com
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Yes you can, provided it is connected all the way
- back to the interface, and provided all the connection boxes in your
- home are wired in the standard way. If you are using single line
- phones in your home, at the connection boxes where you want the second
- phone to be, disconnect the red/green spade lugs from the screws in
- the box, tighten the screws back up, then put the red/green spade
- lugs where you see the yellow/black ones (removing them in the
- process). Now your single line phone, which traditionally expects the
- red/green pair to be fed to it will be getting yellow/black up to that
- point and via the cross-over you just made, what it expects into the
- phone itself. *Be certain* nothing else is connected to the yellow/
- black anywhere, such as a transformer for Princess phone, any other
- gadgetry for a previously used intercom, etc. PAT]
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