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- Date: 23 Jan 93 01:06:06 GMT
- From: osterber@husc8.harvard.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Wiring For Multi-Lines on One Jack
- Message-ID: <telecom13.38.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 38, Message 6 of 11
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- Here at Harvard, "they" a few years ago (I'm a freshman) wired each
- dorm room with new telephone jacks. Each wall plate has a "voice jack"
- and a "Data jack", with the data one reserved for future use in a
- campus network that's in the works. Anyway, the voice jack is a
- standard modular jack, except that it has eight leads on it. They're
- each setup for only one line (on a CENTREX system), and I can plug in
- my one line phone with a regular two-lead modular cord. I want them to
- install another line, and I'm making progess. It seems there's no
- reason that this jack can't handle four lines on eight leads, correct?
- Can someone give me a quick outline as to how the standard modular
- jack is wired. I suspect that each line starts with the middle two
- leads, and branches outward with line four using the two outside
- leads. Can someone give me a hint?
-
-
- Thanks.
-
- Rick
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-