From: chilton@hfglobe.intel.com (Court Hilton)
Subject: Re: Adding a Second Phone Line
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:11:24 GMT

orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
lton@fa
  

>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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