Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Clayton Cramer Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Going From Two Lines To One: Rewiring The Connection Message-ID: <6290@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 11 Apr 90 21:53:07 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 249, Message 5 of 13 I used to have two phone lines into my house -- one for a business, the other for personal use. I have since dropped the business line, but because I didn't want to pay Pacific Telephone an arm and a leg, my business phone line (which terminates in my office) is now inoperative, not connected to my personal phone number. I would like that phone jack on my personal phone number now. When I look in the junction box, I can clearly identify the line going from my business phone jack to the junction box. I can also identify the line going to the personal phone jacks. There are four wires for each, and it appears that at least two of the wires from the business phone jack wiring are also going to the terminals of the personal phone jacks. Can someone provide a simple explanation of the connections involved at the phone junction box? Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer Disclaimer? You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!