Re: Phone Jack Locations?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Residential...attached to outside of panel.
Commercial...locked inside the panel.


"shady" <sh@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:MDGwf.80183$6K2.57238@xxxxxxxxxxx
| I'm curious about what the experts around here have to say about having
the
| phone jack either in or on the panel.  Or, I guess, not using one at all.
|
| I'm not sure if it's a UL requirement to have it easily available, but it
| seems like a huge hole in the system's integrity.
|
| For example, over Christmas we had a customer who had his phone line cut.
| Probably only the third time it's happened in almost 15 years for us.  I
| went there and expected to see damage to the demarc box outside.  But no,
| they cut the wire coming out of the jack instead (unplugging too easy?).
| Obviously it was someone familiar enough with the place to know where to
| find the (not so well hidden) panel.  But this seems to be a good case
where
| the jack should have been in the panel instead.
|
| I've always been told that the jack should be outside so it can be
unplugged
| by the customer if the panel is going psycho and keeps taking over the
phone
| line for no reason.  I doubt 5% of our customers (residential or
commercial)
| know about this, many don't even know where to find the panel.
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