AboutSpencer Holcombe Expertise I have been in the telecommunications arena for several years. I've worked in traffic,installation,repair,customer service,fraud,national and major accounts. I Started with Pacific Telephone,went to American Bell, AT&T Information Systems, AT&T Communications, Pacific Bell-SBC - AT&T. I can answer most questions of a service or equipment nature-excluding cellular. From jacks, wiring, phones, to custom calling services, local to long distance.
Experience Bell System and post divesture work for AT&T and Local operating companies. Service rep-to Fraud desk.
Organizations Telephone Pioneers of America
Publications PTM mag. Connections, Update, and other company publications. Also have expert status at AskME.com
Question My house use to have 3 telephone lines in it. I am down to one with kids gone. I want to use the pre-wired jack in one of the bedrooms to be on the same circuit as the rest of the house. What do I do to wire this? I am with AT&T now, formerly Illinois Bell, Ameritech, SBC and now AT&T. I had three distinct numbers and I am down to one number now. One of my bedrooms is wired, but is not same line setup as other rooms. Please help. Thanks.
Answer Jerry,
Go to your network interface and move the red and green wires from the nonworking line to the working one, making sure to keep the colors together- ie: Red to Red, Green to Green. 2 Go to the bedroom jack and test it with a touchtone phone by calling time, a friend etc. if you can't break dialtone REVERSE the red and green wires at that jack only and try again. This should give you an "extension" of your telphone line in that bedroom. btw, thanks for responding with your telco name and amount of numbers in your home. It gives me an idea of the type of equipment you may have, and a starting point to fix it.
Spencer
