Subj : Re: Dead Phone Line
To   : Jay Emrie
From : Dennis Haddox
Date : Mon Nov 29 2004 10:38 pm

-=> Jay Emrie wrote to All <=-

 JE> In trying to decipher what my problem is with my phone lines I made a
 JE> rather startling (to me anyhow) discovery. All of those 6' - 8' phone
 JE> cables one uses to connect the phone to the hone jack are NOT equal.
 JE> Some have only TWO wires and some have FOUR wires. I made never looked
 JE> at one closely - just assumed they were all two wired. I must have 15
 JE> or 20 of those things here.

2 wires are for one phone line and the 4 wires were probably
added later for mulitple phone lines, although they can be
used for one phone line by using 2 wires <yellow and black?>


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