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Replacing phone wall jack
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RE: Replacing phone wall jack
May 20, 2016 at 11:57 am
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2016 at 11:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Not really, cut-rate contractor using whatever he had on hand / compound jobs. Pics -would- help though.
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I'm thinking of going completety wireless but I don't think you can do that w/o a contract plus I dont like how they slow down my data on my pre pay cell. I don't want to end up with the same crap on my laptop because I use it tons per day.
I was speaking to the apparent contradiction between "direct line" and different colored pairs. Obviously there's a splice in the line somewhere. Maybe more than one.
Shoddy contractor or typical homeowner work, pick one. 
What do the yellow and black wires in a home telephone jack do?
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May 20, 2016 at 12:12 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2016 at 12:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The guy who came to "fix" the jack might have ripped the splice apart when he was stripping the wire. That'd explain it just as easily as mice. I love little household mysteries like these.
Moral of the story: You can't pay anyone, anymore, for the kind of quality work you'd do yourself on your own home.
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If it is just two wires and all you have to do is match them up from the interface box to the jack then why do they have that voltage meter/phone tester? Shouldn't it work with a new Jack just by matching the two wires?
It wasn't a contractor it was the phone cable company itself. Unless they sub contract but they use company vehicles.
RE: Replacing phone wall jack
May 20, 2016 at 12:16 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2016 at 12:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Checks the strength/clarity of the signal. You never know.
(yes, it should work, you should be fine without one)
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 RE: Replacing phone wall jack
May 20, 2016 at 12:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2016 at 2:46 pm by vorlon13.)
for the most part polarity doesn't matter on phone lines, but there are a few older phones with LED indicators and they are particular about red to red and green to green (or the new stylish and fashionable blue and orange and stripey shit they use now)
hell, the local actual telephone guy in my area has never done an install 'correctly' in the whole time I've known him The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
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