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- From: wrb@cbnews.cb.att.com (wallace.r.blackburn)
- Subject: Re: Adding a Second Phone Line
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:18:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.191846.199@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <Bx8C3s.C70@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov5.165850.23994@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Nov5.165850.23994@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> rrh@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (richard.w.heebner) writes:
- >From article <Bx8C3s.C70@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, by cathy@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Catherine T Vojtas):
- >> I need to install a second line so I can have one for voice, one for data
- >> (can you guess why?) The installation charge for the labor of putting in
- >> a second phone line is a bit pricey, but the woman at Illinois Bell told
- >> me that I could do it myself if I knew how...
- >> Anyone know how this is done? I have some background in basic
- >> electronics(simple stuff like building a rectifier, etc...) but I think
- >> I could handle it.
- >> Any help would be greatly appreciated..
- >> Thanks.
- >>
- >> --
- >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >> Catherine Vojtas mail to: cathy@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- >> University of Illinois at U-C
- >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >I think the person you talked with at Illinois Bell misunderstood
- >what you wanted. If you want to be able to use voice and data at
- >the same time there must be two separate phone lines coming into
- >the building.
- >The only way to have two separate telephone lines is to pay whatever
- >the local telephone charges. Some money can be saved by doing the
- >in-house wiring yourself.
-
-
- I think that is what she's saying.
-
- Check the phone lines in your house - they are most likely 4-wire (red,
- green, black, yellow). If so, the job is trivial. This is because you
- only need two lines. Your original phone line should use red and green.
- You can use black and yellow for your second line.
-
- The Illinois Bell installer will simply bring the two wires from the second
- line to somewhere inside your house. You just have to connect them to the
- black and yellow (he/she might go ahead and do it).
-
- The black should connect to a jack in the same way the green does, the
- yellow will be like the red. For info, the red/yellow is "ring" and the
- green/black is "tip". The incoming lines installed by the phone co. should
- be same color code - if not, ask installer which is tip and which is ring.
- They'll really think you know your stuff then :).
-
- If you get them backwards, the phone will work, that is you will be able to
- answer an incoming call. But it won't dial out. If this happens, just
- switch the two wires around.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
-
- Wally Blackburn AA8DX
- wrb@ccsitn.att.com
-