Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Going From Two Lines to One: Rewiring the Connection Message-ID: <6319@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Apr 90 20:22:56 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 24 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 250, Message 1 of 11 Clayton Cramer writes: > Can someone provide a simple explanation of the connections involved > at the phone junction box? Only two wires are ever used for a telephone line ("tip" and "ring"). However, most station wire (the internal wire strung around the premesis) has four conductors: red, green, yellow, black. Usually, the red and green are used for an RJ11C jack. For expediancy, a second line can be added to existing wiring by using the yellow and black leads, and even the single jack can output two lines. When this is done, the jack becomes a RJ14C. It sounds as though someone has sent your personal line off on the yellow/black leads of the wiring that was for your "business" line. Simply put, if you can identify the two conductors bringing in your personal line from telco and feed them to the red/green pair of all your internal jack cables, your personal line should appear at all existing jacks. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !