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Trying to rewire jack to work on main line 2 NIDS outside?
Hi,
My daughter's room has a phone jack in it that doesn't work. The previous owner apparently had 2 phone lines in the home. I only have one. I wanted to make the jack in her room work on our line so we can hook up her satellite receiver to it. When we removed the jack from the wall, it was set up as red and green, just like the main line. I went outside and there are 2 NIDS on the outside of my house. One has my phone number written inside, and the other has 2 different nubmers for the previous owners 2 lines. Does anyone know how to go about fixing the jack and the NID? Just trying to avoid the phone company charges. Thanks! |
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That's consistent with line #1 wiring, but the other set might be connected to line #2. Without a toner, it might be difficult to figure out what is going on, but you might try to get a length of wire either for a test or permanent fix. Once you identify which wires have to be moved, by using a short length, you can either jumper it permanently or move the wire to the appropriate NID. Phone wiring does require special splices that hopefullt still are available at RadioShack. What could have happened is that he had a home office and line #1, Line#2 were used as an office number and FAX number and that NID only goes to that room. Another thing the previous owner could have done is use line #2 of the entire home as the office number and used a 2 line phone in some places. |
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If you had a cell phone, call your main line, with a Multimeter, look for about 90 volts AC at incoming pair, one of the 3 should show the ringing voltage. Take 2 wires from other connections and connect, if it doesn't work, replace and try other pair. A Tone Generator/inductive amp and a Test set will make short work of it. But you can do with neither. |
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