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    Posted on July 26th, 2007

    Written by cliff

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    It’s not the prettiest site in the world, but homephonewiring.com has awesome guides for just about anything you might want to do with your home phone service. I went looking for it because my Mom wanted me to wire her up an additional phone jack and the instructions worked perfectly! They also have step-by-step guides for wiring a second line, wiring a third line, and wiring a DSL splitter. Very handy stuff if you don’t mind hacking around a bit with these things.

    Verizon wanted to charge more than $100 to come out and wire up the additional jack, but it’s really only about twenty minuets worth of work and all you need is a screwdriver and wire cutters! It’s amazing how much money you can save if you are just willing to try something yourself!

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    1. UNH Mike
      Jul 26th
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      Thanks cliff! When we moved into our current apartment (a house) I went through and wired using RG-6 coax (double shielded high quality) and CAT5 for voice and data. I mistakingly bought my coax, but found out that if you contact your cable company, they will supply you with the cable for you to run, and then send a tech to use a compression tool for fittings if you like. (Recommended)
      For all the jacks I ordered I went to Deep Surplus Even after cost of shipping, I saved TONS on the jacks (think a third of the cost of at Dome Hepot) and such. They’re also one of those companies that throws in a bag of skittles or something in the box. You know, in case half way through wiring you need a sugar rush. :-)

    2. Dwight
      Jul 30th
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      I had the very same experience and have a loose connection of phones wires like your picture. It was like a blast from the past. Who knew we would ever have to string phone lines again?

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