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Phone Jack Broken

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chaudharymic

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I moved into my new house today. It is wired for two lines. I figured out that all of the phone jacks are on line one except for one. This is the one where I will plug my DTA into, so the whole house has service. If I go outside and put a wire between line one and two it should carry over the DTA service to both lines, right?
Also, the line two jack is broken, and I am not a phone wire guy. I need some help to figure out how to fix it.
I have posted an image below, if there is anything I can add to make this eaiser, I will be happy to, thanks!


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DTA?

Anyway, the blue/white and blue wires are typically line 1.
If the jack iteself is broken, go to home depot and get another to replace it. wire it exactly as you have it there, blue/white and blue to red and orange. It does not matter which color goes to which on POTS (Plain Old Telephone Sevice).
Now go outside and bridge the blue/white blue from THAT cable in the Demarc( that box outiside your house where the phone service comes in)
over to the rest of the blue/white and blue. now you will have a one line system. If any jacks act funky or don't work make sure that you have them wired with the colors as shown in your picture.
You can frankly do anything at all with the colors, but you tend to piss off the phone guy help if you do🙂
 
Okay, I had figured that much out. 😛
There was some kind of gel where the plastic thing was on this jack. Ill go to lowes or HD tomorrow and see what I can find.
Do I need to do all of that outside to get the signal to both lines?
Wont a regular wire from each lines plug work?
DTA = Phone Adapter for VoIP, the whole house needs to be wired on one line really, but this one jack is on the second line.
 
fix the jack, hook up the dta, go outside. Find that wire using dialtone from dta.
Jumper that line to the others in the demarc. That should do it.
 
Fixed the jack. No dialtone on line two at the NID. Looks like a direct line was run from the NID to the study.... Can't figure out why there is no tone...

EDIT: Got it, stupid mistake, I assumed that the NID was setup the same as in the previous place I lived, and it was backwards.
 
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