Wiring for second phone line

[DarkTXKnight]

Ive got a new home that came prewired with one of the structure wiring boxes and 2 CAT 5 ports in every room. These ports can be used as either voice or data depending on whether I plug them into the phone distribution box or my gigabit switch. At our old house the phone jacks were on a single wall plate so whenever we had two lines I simply removed the old plate and replaced it with a double phone jack and got line 2 access that way. On these new ports though it is set up with the data and phone on the same wall plate so my first thought is that instead of replacing the plate as before i will now have to rewire that cable, which is what i did not want to do. Do any wiring experts have an idea that would work so that we can get to our second phone line again?

 

[spidey07]

You definately don't want to rewire any of the jacks. The whole purpose of structured wiring is that you don't have to rewire any jacks.

Best bet would be to get two line phone adapters. These plug into a single RJ45 port and provide two RJ11 phone jacks. You'd need another one on the wiring close end, from there you would punch down onto your phone service from these plugs.

Or you could just use two line phones.

 

[DarkTXKnight]

Thanks. I figured there had to be something better than a rewire job