How do I wire an additional telephone line in another room?

Question

I just added a second line on my home phone for a daughter bedroom, they connected it outside but I was going to wire the inside jax, I can't figure out how to pick the right wires. There are 2 wires coming in the box , each has a yellow, black green and red . The other phone jax are wired yellow (lt upper) black Rt upper
red lt lower and green rt lower. I want it to pick up the other line since all 4 wires are used in the primary phone how do I pick what goes where. The outside box has just red and green to each line where it plugs in to a jax and additional wires coming from the ground in are yet a differerent color than the inside wires... help
any ideas?

Answer 1

You only need two wires for each line. When you see four wires connected it was either for convenience (in case some day in the future you wanted to add another phone there) or because that is a two line phone (red + green for one line ) and two other colors (black + yellow for the other line) .



Look at the connecting cable and pick a pair of colors (like red + green) which is probably the first phone line. If so when you hook to them you will have an extension on the same line. Otherwise pick the other two (black + yellow). When you hook up those you are on the other line.



If you are on the wrong line then just pick the other two. As long as you work with those color pairs you will have an OK phone. Try dialing out and have someone call in to verify that all is well.

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Answer 3

You can do it 2 ways.



Start by unplugging the little modular jack in the interface (the outside box where your phone service is attached to your house).



1) Add a wire starting from an existing phone jack and route it to where you want the new one. You only need to use the red and green wires. connect them to the jacks at each end by matching the colors of the wires to the colors on the jacks, stripping the insulation, and connecting them to the terminals.



2) Add a wire from the interface (the outside box where your phone service is attached to your house) to the new jack. Wire in the new jack using the red and green wires as above. In the interface, you will find 4 terminals. 1 will have a red sticker by it and 1 will have a green sticker by it. Connect your red and green wires to the appropriate labeled terminals.



That is it. Plug the little modular jack in at the interface, and check for a dial tone.



Don't worry about the black and yellow wires, they are extras, or were sometimes used on older phones with the early style dial light. They can also be used for a 2nd line on a 2 line phone.



The wires coming in from the ground are the new style color code. Just for your information, the solid blue is equal to the red, and the white with blue stripe is equal to the green. The other color and trace pairs are for additional lines. The phone company now uses 4 or 5 pair incoming lines in new construction.

Answer 4

Red/Green is the primary line and Yellow/Black is the second line. I remember the Christmas Colors as the primary line.



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Answer 5

SAVE YOURSELF A PAIN by buying a cordless phone for a second line. Put a base at the place the line is entering your house (sometimes a basement) and a cordless set in your daugter's room. She will be able to walk with the phone, and talk from whatever place. She will thank you, and you will save yourself some pain.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

can you please try to explain more the wires you are dealing with. number them please.



General rule of thumb. I have wired phones before. what you do is this.



If one has black and red... the other wire has just all black.

then it don't matter if you are connecting to a .. red and white, or all white or what have you.



as long as one is a solid colour and the other is mixed,

place the mixed colour with the other wire that is any mixture of colours and the solid goes only on another solid colour, and it don't have to be the same colour as long as its solid.



Hope I made sense.

Answer 8

Call the phone company and pay the 80 bucks to have an installer come out. You may do some damage and have it end up costing more.

Answer 9

Just hook up the red and green wires to the jack.