Re: Converting 2 line home to 1 line home

["E. Lee Dickinson" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"coolworld" <chris.smerechniak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello the house I bought has 2 separate phone lines which I don't
> really need and would like to reintegrate them into 1. The juntion box
> is on the side of my house and appear rather convoluted. Without
> getting into the details of the configuration too much is there an easy
> way for me to reintegrate ie attach the second pair of wires to the
> same terminals as the first ?

I assume your problem is that some of the jacks in the house are line 2, and
some of them are line 1, and that you'd like them all to be on line 1?

Connecting them at the telco box is, in my opinion, a bad idea.  I don't
know what a 2 line phone would do.. possibly dump the 90v ring signal down
another pair in a way that could damage equipment?

If you can, at the phone jacks, swap the pairs. Generally both pair are
pulled to each phone jack. L1 jacks are wired with one pair ( Red / Black)
in the center, L2 jacks with the other pair (Green / Yellow) in the center.
Flipping them at the jacks maintains the wiring integrity in the house.

If each jack only has one pair connected, it would probably be okay to
connect them at the box.