Monday, April 13, 2009

How do you activate a phone jack?

Line to house works fine, but individual phone jacks are inactive. If I can do it myself, I'd rather than wait for the phone compnay.


If you have a Network Interface box, open it and make sure the connectors are plugged in.

If they're already plugged in and you still have no phone service in the house, follow the wiring into the house and look for a connector or wire junction. This will either have plug-in connectors or blade-type push-in connectors for the wires. Check to be sure that the connectors or wires are attached.

One caution - if the jacks weren't professionally wired, there may be a short in one of them, causing all the jacks not to work. You'll have to find a problem like that by the process of elimination. Choose one jack and examine the wiring to it. If it checks okay, disconnect all the jacks BUT that one, then test it. If it works, reconnect the other jacks one at a time until they stop working. The last one connected will be the bad one :)

Just remove it from the wall and see if it is hooked up. It is color coded and very easy to do. Just put the red wire on the red screw, the green wire on the green screw, etc.

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