Re: No dailtone on the third floor...

["B Fuhrmann" <b-fuhrmann-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The second jack could be a number of things or nothing.

You should look behind the plates to find out.

As someone else said, it could be a 2nd line.  I did that  in some common
areas of the house for a friend who had two lines.  The top jack was line 1
(her line) and the lower one was line 2 (her roommates),

I have one by my computer where both are the same line.  Just avoiding a
line splitter there.

If one is not the same size as the other, it is likely to be a computer
network.

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Regarding your third floor:  It probably isn't connected to the same line.
Again, look behind the plate to see what wires are connected.
It could be set up for a 2nd line or just not connected somewhere else.

Phones can be wired either from a common point or daisy chained (in ->
jack -> jack -> jack -> jack -> etc), or some combination of the two.

My townhome (early 70s) was wired as a daisy chain of 6 pair (2 pairs per
phone line in that era, 2nd pair was to power dial lights) cable.  Any room
could have had any combination of three phone lines.



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Bill Fuhrmann



"Moon1990" <kevin.jasey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a newly renovated home with cat5 cable run throughout (all
> homeruns).  I get a dailtone from at least one of the rj45 jacks in all
> my coverplates on the first and second floors but no dailtone at any of
> my rj45 jacks on the third floor.  Could anyone tell my why this could
> be?  How do I get a dailtone up there?
>
> I've never done any stripping of telephone cable or wire punching but
> from my research this seems pretty strait forward with the right tools
> and if you are not color blind.
>
> And in most of my coverplates I have two rj45 jacks.  One is obviously
> for telephone but what could the other rj45 be used for?
>
> Any suggestions are more than welcome.
>
> KJ
>