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Converting single phone jack in to two
I have CAT5 lines in place of standard phone lines in my house. In one room I have two active lines going to one jack I bought a duplex connector but both jacks were one line. I have rewired the jack several times, for some reason I can only get one line to work at a time. What am I doing wrong?
More info, the jack has 6 wires; yellow/blue, red/green, white/black. One active line is orange/orangewhite (primary), the other is blue/bluewhite (secondary). Whichever line is connected to the red/green works. |
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You need to punch down the primary line on the blue connectors and the secondary line on the orange connectors on the jack. Then you need to plug in a L1/L2/L1+L2 splitter from a store such as radio shack or home depot. THen you will have your 2 separate lines.
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Basically, Orange pair go to red/green on one jack.
Blue pair go to red/green pair of second jack Don't use Blue and white on Jacks. Single Line phones and faxes use the center pair(Red and Green), Yelow/Black is line 2. This following can be ignored. You may be able to connect Red and green from one jack to yellow/black of second jack, and yellow/black to red/green of second jack. Now if you plug into one jack you have line 1, other jack line 2 This is the good part. If you have 2 line Phone or device. Plug into one jack and have line 1 and line 2. Single line device will access line 1 only Plug into other jack and get line 2 and line 1. Single line device will access line 2 only White/Orange to Green Orange/White to Red White/Blue to Green Blue/White to Red |
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