About Carmine Bonito Expertise Expertise In Business Telephone Systems, VoiceMail, Paging, And Data Networks.
Experience Experience in the area:
Started With New York Telephone In 1970, 17-Years In Switching, The Rest In Business Telephone Systems. Am Presently Running An Interconnect Co. In Northern Michigan.
Expert: Carmine Bonito Date: 8/14/2005 Subject: Adding more phone jacks
Question "Thank you in advance for taking the time to try and help me out. Here is my situation in a nutshell. I have a small insurance office inside an old mall that has two rooms in it. In one of the rooms I have a jack that has two phone spots to plug a phone line into. I use the bottom one for my phone and the top one for my DSL and fax. They are different phone numbers. That is the only working jack in the office.
There are 4 or 5 other potential jack locations that have a box with a cover on them and inside there is phone wire that goes up in to the false ceiling. So both ends of the wire are cut.
What I would like to do is have 1 or 2 of those jacks hooked up like my one working jack. And if possible find a way to utilize both lines as phone lines also. So if I am on one call and another call comes in, I would be able to see who it is as it rolls to the other line. But if that is not possible I would at least like to figure out how to wire the new jacks.
The wires to the existing jack are as follows:
Top line: (DSL/fax line) of the 4 screws to choose from the top 2 have a blue and a blue with white band hooked up
Bottom line: (main phone line) of the 4 screws to choose from the top 2 have an orange and an orange with white band hooked up
Is there a way to splice the hooked up wire and the dead wires in the ceiling so I could add new jacks?
How could I best utilize this two line small office phone set up?
I think I bought every phone wiring part that Menards had, so if you explain what parts are needed I probably have them.
Sorry for the long explaination and thank you again if you choose to answer.
Shea
Answer Hello Shea,
The task is not as hard as you think.
At Each of the working jacks, the wires are connected to the center 2 pins (red/green or blue/white) But same none the less.
All you need to do is connect a wire (follow the colors that are being used now white/blue & white/orange) and
run it to the jack that you want to activate and you are done. Similar to running an extension cord to where there is no electric outlet...
The Two Call Thing cannot be done with only one telephone line, you need two and the telephone company sets them up in their office to roll over. You cannot use your fax line for this because if a voice call were to come in, the fax would answer it...
Where are you located ?
Carmine
