Re: Bypass Telco's NID box?

["Bob La Londe" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You have to have the NID for a couple reasons.  1st it is the legal
seperation point from your line to their line.

Second, it provides grounding protection to your home via carbon (old style)
or inert gas tubes (new style) that will short the phone lines to ground in
the event of an extreme voltage spike such as a lightning strike (more than
a 1000 yards away).

You might consider moving the NID to the eve of the house and running an
appropriate ground (10 ga) to a solid ground rod from there.  Technically
this is also a no no, and if you ask the telco for permission they will say
no, but...  many people feel its easier to ask forgiveness then to beg
permission.



"Bobby_M" <rmierzej@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1112199264.051053.60620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Instead of buying a cellular backup system, I'm considering protecting
> my phone line from easy cuts. The line comes to my house approx 15' off
> the ground, runs down the house to the telco installed NID. It then
> goes back up the house and into the attic towards my central wiring
> terminal in the basement (where I also installed my alarm panel.
> Obviously the loop down to the NID is extremely susceptable to cutting
> since it goes to eye level. Even running this loop through conduit
> would be a waste since a screwdriver would allow access into the NID
> anyway. I'm considering running the Telco line directly into the attic
> and leaving the loop to the NID as a decoy. Does anyone know if there
> are any legal penalties for doing so since the circuit is technically
> not mine until it exits the NID?
>
> Bobby
>