went to test phone jacks at my new house. all but one worked:
the future home office jack was dead. i undid the jack cover and found it was on much newer wire (cat 3) than the rest of the jacks. i was unable to trace such a wire until i went outside.
I found it went out the wall, through the siding, and out to the ameritech branded phone box, not to the main splice in the basement. lazy wire jockey i see...
here is the problem: we do not have service with the phone company. we have it with our cable instead. and because of that, i had to unplug the main splice from the phone box because it made all the jacks turn to static w/o a dial tone.
not to mention how they had no cable restraints on the cable outside... flopping in the wind, covered with vines.
anyway, i drilled a new hole through the floor to the basement. i took the old line though the hole to an unused old style 4-prong jack. i removed the jack as it was in a location where we would NEVER have a phone (pet rat room). i spliced in the new line to the two old ones that came out of the jack, electrical taped it over (to prevent shorts), and put the old jack upstairs back together.
normally i would have ran it to the main splice but the cable was too short.
it took way too long to do... the jacka**es at ametech used cheap cat 3 that was a b!tch to strip correctly...
i duct taped over the exterior hole... once i get some silicone sealant or the like, i will seal it with that.
i also need to find my stash of nail-on wire clips...
btw, i tried the new jack, exellent sound quality. (NO static).
idk if ameritech still exists, but i think how poorly wired the jack was is just STUPID! i guess they wanted to make people think twice before dumping their overpriced sh!tty phone service...
the future home office jack was dead. i undid the jack cover and found it was on much newer wire (cat 3) than the rest of the jacks. i was unable to trace such a wire until i went outside.
I found it went out the wall, through the siding, and out to the ameritech branded phone box, not to the main splice in the basement. lazy wire jockey i see...
here is the problem: we do not have service with the phone company. we have it with our cable instead. and because of that, i had to unplug the main splice from the phone box because it made all the jacks turn to static w/o a dial tone.
not to mention how they had no cable restraints on the cable outside... flopping in the wind, covered with vines.
anyway, i drilled a new hole through the floor to the basement. i took the old line though the hole to an unused old style 4-prong jack. i removed the jack as it was in a location where we would NEVER have a phone (pet rat room). i spliced in the new line to the two old ones that came out of the jack, electrical taped it over (to prevent shorts), and put the old jack upstairs back together.
normally i would have ran it to the main splice but the cable was too short.
it took way too long to do... the jacka**es at ametech used cheap cat 3 that was a b!tch to strip correctly...
i duct taped over the exterior hole... once i get some silicone sealant or the like, i will seal it with that.
i also need to find my stash of nail-on wire clips...
btw, i tried the new jack, exellent sound quality. (NO static).
idk if ameritech still exists, but i think how poorly wired the jack was is just STUPID! i guess they wanted to make people think twice before dumping their overpriced sh!tty phone service...
what did we say about hoarding too much stuff and depriving others of them?! *cough* socialism *cough* lol! 
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