Communications: Voice, Radio and Data - Combining phone lines for a new home office
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Nate-O
09-27-04, 09:58 PM
Hello Everyone,
I've perused these threads and am enough of a newbie to have possibly overlooked an answer to my question. So I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere.
Basically, I am turning an attic room that I used to rent into my home office. It has a separate phone line that is now inactive.
I am also getting DSL service this week. I was wondering if there was a way to merge that inactive line with my line so my phone will ring on the third floor, as well as receive the DSL signal.
I've also looked at a couple sites, but am not sure if it's just a matter of splicing the black and yellow wires to the red and green. Is there something I'm missing, or is there a simple way to do this so I don't have to drop $80 to have Verizon come out and do it.
Many thanks in advance for your help!
Nate
I've perused these threads and am enough of a newbie to have possibly overlooked an answer to my question. So I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere.
Basically, I am turning an attic room that I used to rent into my home office. It has a separate phone line that is now inactive.
I am also getting DSL service this week. I was wondering if there was a way to merge that inactive line with my line so my phone will ring on the third floor, as well as receive the DSL signal.
I've also looked at a couple sites, but am not sure if it's just a matter of splicing the black and yellow wires to the red and green. Is there something I'm missing, or is there a simple way to do this so I don't have to drop $80 to have Verizon come out and do it.
Many thanks in advance for your help!
Nate
chfite
09-28-04, 09:15 AM
If you intend to splice into the existing line, you should do it at the dmarc to avoid tying into a daisy chained line. Daisy chaining is poplular with telephone lines, but is the dickens for DSL which requires a better quality signal than voice.
I would recommend new cable, cat5 due to cost, performance, and availability; to replace whatever unknown configuration may exist in the house now. This will avoid problems if the DSL performs poorly in the house on a wiring system you cannot inspect.
Hope this helps.
I would recommend new cable, cat5 due to cost, performance, and availability; to replace whatever unknown configuration may exist in the house now. This will avoid problems if the DSL performs poorly in the house on a wiring system you cannot inspect.
Hope this helps.
Nate-O
09-28-04, 09:33 AM
Thanks for the help.
I figured the splicing should be done at the NID/dMarc level. Fortunately, we rented to a guy who had DSL about a year ago, so the NID is modern and up to date...no funky wiring.
Are you aware of any diagrams or instructions that could walk someone through the steps of splicing phone lines? And...if the configs at the NID are up to date, will the operation still require new cabling?
Again, thanks for your expertise!
Nate
I figured the splicing should be done at the NID/dMarc level. Fortunately, we rented to a guy who had DSL about a year ago, so the NID is modern and up to date...no funky wiring.
Are you aware of any diagrams or instructions that could walk someone through the steps of splicing phone lines? And...if the configs at the NID are up to date, will the operation still require new cabling?
Again, thanks for your expertise!
Nate
tizzy
10-05-04, 09:52 PM
More than likely your phone line and the secondary phone line are wired to the red/green lugs at the demarc. So if you remove the test jack from what you think is your line and lose dial tone inside then all you have to do is move the second line form the red/green to the primary(your) red/green lugs and the switch is made. Hope this helps.