Home Telephone Line Wiring
You can add patch cords and splitters to network lines inside your house.
Home telephone line wiring. Older telephone wiring was a basic cat 3 4 conductor or 2 pairs with red green black yellow. This module snaps into the panel and contains the phone terminals and the main cable splitter block. At first glance all the colored wires associated with your telephone wiring may seem confusing. Line 1 is usually the only telephone line you need to connect red and green.
Now you have the home telephone wiring you have always desired. Additional lines would be need for a fax machine or second phone line naturally great. Keep in mind that the colors of the telephone wiring in your home will be typically one of two types or insulation colors. In reality doing it yourself is very simple even though there may be many conductors in the cable you need only two conductors or what is considered a pair for a single residential phone line.
The phone and coaxial cable lines from the street connect to these terminals as do the lines from the individual jacks in your home. During the second half of the 20th century is of the following kind. This is a gray or tan box that measures roughly 8 inches by 12 inches. The network interface device box is where the telephone wire from the phone company terminates and also where the phone wiring going into the house will connect to your landline phone.
The kind of wire shown above has recently become obsolete. For all new telephone wiring projects you should use cat 5 cable. You will have a wide variety of telephone jacks to choose from but the wiring for a single line phone service will be standard.