Questions tagged [phone-wiring]
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How can I increase the volume of this video intercom device?
I recently moved and the video intercom device is faulty. Given building conditions a repair cannot be performed and my device rings and sounds at a very low volume. I have to be at a meter's distance ...
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Home Voip GV service/Phones not working with Cat5e wiring
General networking. Landline telephone number using a digital voip google voice service box. I want the GV box and phone moved into the hall bedroom. I can’t get a dial tone on my landline ...
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Can I place a 4c cable inside existing cable channels alongside with power delivering ones?
I bought 20 meters of 4c cable in order to replace existing phone ones (voice only). The reason why is that I want to place some new phone RJ11 plugs.
But I don't know if I can place inside the ...
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How to make old landline phone ringer into doorbell
Ok sorry for the title but I can't think of better wording.
Now I have an old secondary phone ringer that was in my Dad's garage that I took out of there when my mom moved after he passed. You could ...
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How do I connect to a 3-wire 1949 interior phone line?
I’m trying to connect a modern 4-wire telephone surface-mount jack to what appears to be an original 1949 3-wire telephone line: only red, green and yellow wires. I’m replacing the original four-post ...
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Mysterious wires running from wall - can I remove them
I live in a house built in late 50s.
There are 2 long cords sticking out from the wall (exterior wall) picture is attached.
How can I safely remove them? Can I do it DYI? They are super long and ...
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Phone/cat3 equivalent of network switch
I want to split the incoming phone wire across 5 rooms. For ethernet, I use a simple Netgear switch fed from my cable modem and then 5 ethernet connections going out of the utility room to each room ...
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Tracing a Cat5 cable used for telephone connection back to 66 block
I have a Cat 5 ethernet cable terminated with a RJ45 Ethernet (8P8C) jack in the Master BR that is serving as a telephone connection. The other end of the cable is punched down into a 66 Block in the ...
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Testing phone installation without phone service
Is there a way, such as a simulation tool, that would allow me to test some phone wiring + outlets without having actual phone service? A device that would fake signal from one end to another?
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How to merge two 66B4-3 phone blocks to join lines?
My house came with what I presume are 2 phone circuits. I've now connected one of them to VoIP service -- it works great for my wife's work. However, we'd like to move her office to a different room ...
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Mystery telephone wiring device in old house
This mystery thing is mounted to a ceiling joist in the basement of a 1940s house. I have a couple of questions:
What is it?
Is there any reason I couldn't rip it out and run new Cat 5e's from the ...
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What is this box on wall in my kitchen?
This little box is on the kitchen wall of a house I recently bought. House built in the 60s. I'm guessing it's something to do with the phone line but wanted to verify before removing.
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How do I update daisy-chained RJ11 to standard punch-down style keystone jack?
So I have a wallplate with just an RJ11 port on it. I have wired an ethernet connection and now want to swap the wall plate out for a 2 port keystone wall plate and leave the RJ11 connection ...
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Phone line not working after jack removed
We had a phone jack in kitchen that we removed. We first cut the line then taped it individually. We noticed the phone line in the basement stopped working afterwards. I'm assuming the basement line ...
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Why do phone and cables companies leave their cables behind, and what to do about it?
Lately while walking the dogs I've noticed a lot of unused cable dangling down from the (quaint) phone poles all around our town. As far as I can tell from both its position on the pole and the ...
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How do I remove this wall plate with no visible screws?
I'm amazed how complicated this wall plate is to remove. It is made of plastic and accommodates a phone jack and a coaxial cable. Please see the images that accompany this question.
I've searched it ...
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Old and unused power outlet
I have this old and unused hole that I believe was for an outlet or a light switch (bought a house with this capped with plastic). I also have a few old phone Jacks. I plan on removing the phone Jacks ...
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Connecting two phone wires to phone socket
I am trying to connect ( 1 line ) 2 phone wires ( they are blue and white ) from the wall to telephone socket, but i am not sure where the wires go and how can i identify them and where to connect ...
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Unexplained drilling/vibrating/sounds like cell phone sound in wall!
my family is at their wits end. Every single Monday, Thurs and Fri morning between 6am-7:30am we hear from the upstairs bedroom wall/ceiling a vibrating or drilling sound that lasts like 2-5 seconds. ...
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Data/Communication wire in conduit
What wire is acceptable for use in underground conduit to transmit Data/Communication? Does it need to be shielded? Are there any specifications listed in the National Electric Code? Thanks!
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How to protect exterior phone line connection from the elements
I recently had some work done in my phone line. The line works, but it was left partially taped. What's the best way to protect it? It's outdoors, so it needs to be UV-safe and waterproof. I've ...
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No dial tone on phone jacks
The phone box is located inside my house. It had listed on it there were 3 phone lines in the box .
Since I moved in never had a home phone . Just went to get Internet service needing a phone line . ...
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Drywall over phone line junction?
I have a covered electrical box high up on my wall in my kitchen. I removed the cover and it’s telephone lines spliced together. There’s no telephone jack just the splice.
I know you cannot bury ...
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How can I run voice over existing coaxial cable?
I've been doing home improvement projects for a while and one thing that I've made use of the most is taking advantage of existing cabling in the walls that isn't being used. The project that did this ...
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Apartment entrance intercom
Does anyone know how an old apartment intercom with door unlocker works? When I open it I see 2 wire connected to it.
The way it works is very simple: if someone at the building entrance pushes my ...
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How to join 2 telephone wires to pull through wall
I need to replace my old telephone (4 pairs) with a new one probably 10 pair cable. The path already contains some other wires too and looks like no new cable can be inserted. My question is how I can ...
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Installed Electric Tankless Water Heater - Internet loss when active
I installed an Ecosmart 27kw tankless water heater yesterday and as far as heating the water goes, everything works perfectly.
The issue is when the water heater is running, I lose internet!
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how to safely terminate phone cable
I took a phone jack off the wall and snipped the cable. I'm not getting any voltage between green and red, either AC or DC. I don't want to just leave a wire in the wall that could become live. How ...
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What is this in my wall?
I am removing wall paneling and this is in the corner of the room and wondering if it is safe to remove
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Telephone wiring question
I am trying to rewire the telephone wires in my home, and I appear to be not getting it. I have extremely familiar with running cat5, as I use it all day long for my job, and thought telephoney was ...
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Identify source of current in phone lines and reclaim use of phone lines?
I'm trying to use a VoIP system in my home's existing phone lines, which I have little knowledge of. The two bedrooms are connected. I can hook up my Obitalk adapter in one and get a dial tone in the ...
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Using PEX as wire conduit
I have some 1/2" PEX-AL-PEX left over and thinking about using it as conduit for ~20' ethernet or phone cable. Pipe is appropriately orange.
Will the aluminium layer provide RF shielding? (assuming I ...
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Do I need an ADSL faceplate if I am not using my phone line?
I have a bulky ADSL faceplate on my phone socket, and it's taking a lot of room, so I can't put furniture in from of it.
I don't use my phone line, so I was wondering if I could use a slim standard ...
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Reason for 2 cat5 cables to RJ11 Phone Jack?
I popped off a wall jack for one of the phone connections in my house because I was curious to see if it was using cat5 that I could use to change some of them to rj45 for ethernet instead and got ...
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What is the purpose of power going into a Phone Receptacle?
It is my understanding that the following photo contains a phone jack (old style 4 prong) to the left and a standard nema-15r outlet to the right.
Well, we had found some mold in our basement under ...
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Retrofit apartment for gigabit internet
My high-rise apartment building has gigabit internet service available via copper ethernet at the communication closet on my floor, but it's my responsibility to establish the connection from that ...
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What can I do about a phone jack protruding from the wall?
I just moved into a home built in 1962 and so there are still a bunch of land-lines connected. I just removed a telephone from my kitchen that had a phone jack behind it. See the picture below:
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Adding a telephone extension socket
I have recently moved into a new apartment and I have rewired a couple of phone sockets as the had clearly been messed with before. While decorating I removed a blanking plate in the living room and ...
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How do I correctly identify the purpose of a wire?
I have recently moved into a new home. When I tried to have internet set up, I realized there was no phone/internet socket.
I eventually realized that there were four TV/aerial sockets next to each ...
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Is it ok if I pass through a RJ11 (Phone line) cable outside and leave it while it is raining?
I'm stupid and paranoid 😂 but just to make sure, is it safe to leave a phone lines (rj11 I think) outside while raining, the front and end BIT is inside the house (forgot what it's called, the bit ...
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What is this utility box found above a basement bathroom?
While investigating putting in a fan, we came across this odd utility box with spring loaded cover. What is it for, and can we remove it?
House was built in 1935. An addition to another part of the ...
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What is this four connector-post, square electrical device mounted to my interior wall? [duplicate]
I stumbled across this device while renovating the bedroom of my house. It is screwed into the wall. There is only one wire going into it. The wire has several small diameter wires inside the ...
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What kind of wiring/service are these wires for and how do I test them to find out?
This group of wires is on the side of the house (no cover on the patch box).
I tried tracing some of them (the orange arrow) and that seems to terminate at a phone connector box.
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What is the easiest way to run telephone cable between floors without fishing them through the walls?
We have a telephone system in a room downstairs with two jacks in it; one of them is connected to a phone in that room.
I am hoping to get a rotary phone installed in a room upstairs. I am in the ...
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Mysterious cord running from wall. Safe?
My wife and I are preparing to sell our home and are discovering some weird things. Our home was built in 1958, so it is older. We found this in a corner that had some furniture in front of it.
We ...
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For phone jack, which terminals are used by modem?
I have a new telephone jack to replace the old on the wall outlet. The new jack is confusing and I'm new to this. I think I may have messed with the wiring, and I don't understand which wire should go ...
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How to properly link 2 phone cables with different diameter?
I'm thinking about how to link 2 cables .
I have the phone line from my provider that comes in with a cable made of 2 internal strands, each of this strands is 0.75mm on average along all the length ...
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Can I patch and tile over a phone jack?
I am tiling a backsplash in the kitchen and there's an unsightly phone jack that I will never use. Is it advisable cut the wire, remove the box and patch over it? That's a stud behind the gap between ...
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How to connect a phone line?
I'm trying to connect the phone lines in my new home. I have 2 lines given by my phone provider arriving downstairs in the apartment:
Then I have 2 RJ11 cables plugged into to the connections shown ...
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Phone line part identification
I'm trying to determine the name and function of the part in the attached picture. I'm in the process of fixing dead phone jacks in my house and I've come across two of these so far. They look like ...
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