Questions tagged [telephone]
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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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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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Where does the incoming Cable/Internet service provider wire (Comcast in my case), get terminated in my low voltage panel?
I was wondering where the incoming cable/service providers wire actually lands on a low voltage panel. It is a residential application & I'd like to learn more on how service actually gets passed ...
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Can I remove a demarcation point for a telco that no longer exists?
Awhile back we had a new electrical service put in, and they put in a whole new service mast and the works. But the old service mast is still sitting there because there are other services connected ...
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Unknown Phone Cable to Internet
My home is old (like over 20 years), and we just renovate it last years. Later on, I started to use another part of my home, and that part wasn't touched for a long time (not during the renovation). I ...
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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 to split phone line for internet without using a splitter?
ISP sent a technician to fix dropout issues, he split the phone line wires into two, one taped into the bare wire end of a normal splitter, the other into an unused bare end of phone cable, and then ...
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