Use a screwdriver to loosen the screws, unsecure the four wires from behind them, and pull the old jack from the wall. If your jack is the type that is a rectangular box attached to a plate on the wall with notches, use a flathead screwdriver to pop off the top part of the case, and proceed to loosen the screws and remove the wires.
Unscrew the plating and remove this from the wall as well. Prepare the wires for your new jack. Now use the wire cutter or a utility knife to gently strip the insulation from the tips of the wires so they may be connected to the new jack. Attach the telephone wires to the new jack. Turn the new jack over and loosen the four screws on the back.
Connect each wire to the correct section of the jack, marked by color; there will be a spot for the red, green, yellow, and black wires. Secure the wires by tightening each screw. Mount the jack. Push the wires into the wall and position the jack over the hole. Place the new screws in the screw holes and use a screwdriver to secure the new jack to the wall.
Depending on the type of jack you have, you may have a cover case that should be secured onto the wall piece to complete the process. Some types of jacks come with adhesive backing in addition to screws. Reconnect the phone line. Return to the NID on the outside of your house. Open the box and plug the test jack back in.
Test your line. Plug your telephone or DSL cable into your newly installed jack. Your phone should have a dial tone, and your internet connection should work now as long as your computer is correctly set up for a DSL connection.
If the phone line does not seem to be working, you may need to unscrew the new jack and make sure the wires are connected to the proper places and correctly screwed in.
If further electrical work is required, make sure to go back to the NID and disconnect the phone line again before manipulating the wires. Daniel Stoescu Master Electrician. Daniel Stoescu. Place the wires onto the designated terminals on the mounting plate. The red and green wires go with the primary line, while the black and yellow wires go with the secondary line. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 0.
I have a cable connection and a phone jack in the same box. The cable works, but the phone jack doesn't. How can i change it? It's easier to just buy a new piece, if you want the connections to be in the same housing.
Not Helpful 10 Helpful Bring in the owner of the company you bought the phone from; you're going to need to know what the wires mean now, and use Washi tape or similar to colour code them. Whilst doing that, write down which colour means what. That way, every time you need to use the cables and wires just look at your sheet. Not Helpful 19 Helpful The white and orange wires are now obsolete. Also check the volume property. Method 2: This may happen when you have the external speakers set to default.
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Thank you. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to A. User's post on August 9, Hi, Thanks for the answer! This site in other languages x. Fortunately, Ooma has got you covered! Under most circumstances, it is possible to distribute your Ooma dial tone to all of the phone jacks in your home. Before you get started, there are some safety precautions you should be aware of.
All the wires in the three phone jacks are connected. Would my rechargable phone make a difference in this case? Two of the three phone jacks appear to be a bit older than the type that gives a dial tone wall mount type with spring retractable half moon looking swivel door I know this could be a it might be this,this or this or that question.
What other checks might be effectively applicable in sorting this no dial tone thing out? Thanks to the phone pros and non pros alike! You might take the cover of the jack and be sure the wires are hooked up to it, then check the interface box outside to be sure the same color wires are hooked up there as well. If all appears wired properly, my next step would be to try hooking up a new jack to the existing wires. If still no go, try swapping off the existing wires at both the box and jack.
Last resort would be to run a new cable from the box. I have a newer home, about five years old or so I think it has the six wire interface box since I have three separate phone lines. I just bought a Polycom phone which is an analog speaker phone only for my office. I also tried a 6-line splitter to the wall but nothing.
My Vtech has an ext. Thanks for this great service. John C. My jacks are the usual red, green, yellow, black, etc. My cable appears to have a solid color next to the same color with white hashes. So, which one goes to red or green? The solid, or the one with the white hash?
I sure hope somebody can help me with this. I just ran a new phone jack into the living room for DSL to our computer. There are now 3 jacks in the house bedroom, kitchen, and living room. The kitchen and living room are next to each other, but the jacks do not share a common wall.
The bedroom phone jack always works. I cannot have anything plugged into the kitchen and living room jacks at the same time because neither will work. Only 1 can be plugged in at a time between those 2 rooms. To further complicate the matter, the phone jack in the living room will randomly dump the DSL signal and will not pick it back up until I pull the jack out and let it hang from the wall.
I have replaced the living room phone jack once, and it worked for a week, but now it quits again. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! I have a question, I just recently signed up for verizon dsl services and they told me that in order for my dsl services to work I would need to install a new jack in my room or re wire the one I already have so that the number I have already will not work on it.
I would like to know how would I go about doing that? I recently signed up for verizon dsl and I need to install a Seperate phone jack so I could use it because its on an seperate account with the phone line. Hi, 1 What does it cost ballpark figure to run a new cable from the NID through the house for 3 jacks? I was removing wallpaper in the kitchen and had to unscrew the plate cover that has the phone jack in it and the thing you screw the satelling cord to.
When I was scraping the wallpaper, I must have touched the wires with my arm somehow and got a slight shock. Since then, none of our phones will work in the house. I went outside and checked to see if we had service coming into our house and we do. Any ideas on what could be wrong? While you could figure it out by trial and error until you find the combination that works, a better idea is to open up the interface box, find the line that goes to your jack, note the color of the wires that are connected to it, and match those same colors on the jack.
I recently moved into someone elses home, the bedroom that I use has no phone jack and I am wondering how to approach this problem. One phone jack is located in the bedroom next to mine. The phone jack is on the wall in the other room and that wall is the same wall that I have too.
So I use a pin light; shine it from the wall jack, it would go maybe 1 foot through the wall to my wall which looks like its the same wall as his wall is and I could take a drill and drill right through my wall and it would open up and I could unattach his wall jack and attach it to a new wall jack in my room.
I am asking you if this is what I would need to do? I did look in my closet but asside from this big insulated 12 inch diam. Great site! I have an old telephone wall mounted jack. There are 2 wires going into it, each separating into yellow, red, green and black. There are 8 screws available to attach these to—4 on each side of the jack.
I have tried connecting the other green with the green still attached to the second screw on the right, but no dial tone. What should I try? I have a connection in my basement, that has two studs with nuts on left side, and two studs with nuts on the right side.
Thgre is a main cable coming in from the box outside, with a black and white wire. I can send a picture, if that would help. In the box outside, there is a blue pair and ornage pair connected. My lines have never come directly from the external panel. Never mind, I figured it out. I extended the orange twisted pair, and attached them to the second set of studs ti the right, with the wire for the second line. This is an old house, and the studs for the phone connections are just bare, uncovered.
Andrew Says: September 19th, at am Andrew, did you insert the dongles that come with your broadband Modem? You should have gotten about of them for all the other jacks in the house. I tried to switch the face plate with a working one. The wires are so short-one broke-now it is nearly impossible to hook them up. What do I do? Can I add wire? Hi we tried to install an new jack in a bedroom, it seemed to work but lost the phone in the living room, we have one other phone that does work in another bed room, it is now the only phone to work.
Any idea why the one jack quit working? Any help would be appriecated. I love this site — thank you! Am I correct in assuming one set is for my dsl and the other for the landline? It looks as though they were all attached before but none of the wires are stripped.
Thank you for your time. Hello all, I have 3 black wires coming out of the wall and 4 wires from the jack to connect to those 3 wires. The 3 wires from the wall are not color coded, they are black, and by trial and error, I have been unable to get a dial tone. I have an older home with a telephone connection where i dont want it, i want to remove it. How do you take the jack off?
Hello everyone. My friend asked me to hook up several rj45 jacks to handle data from his hub that is in the basement. The jacks he bought does not have the same color code as my cat5. The other end of my cat 5 will have to have a RJ45 plug crimped onto it.
Will my wire order be standard at that end because of this goofy jack? I have an old rotary phone hooked up in the garage with the phone line wired straight into the phone. How can I install a phone jack on this line so that I can place a dsl filter there also and eliminate line noise?
The phone is antique but convenient. Live in a 3 story condo. Have a bedroom right above dining room and there is a phone jack installed in bedroom on 3rd floor in same location. My brother drilled a hole in the wall in dining area expecting to find a telephone wire but nothing. Is it possible to install a wire from phone jack in bedroom to dining area below.
Help if you can!!! Hi Rose, Yes, you can run an extension for a new jack from an existing phone jack. Check out our article on How to Add a Phone Extension to find out more. Hi Rose, It will not be easy to run a phone line from one floor to another.
You will have to cut an opening in the wall, drill through the top and bottom wall plates to the stud cavity below, then snake the phone line down the wall and out through an hole in the baseboard. Good luck with your project! What a wealth of information!
I have just bought an old rotary wall phone for my kitchen and LOVE it. A few years ago I used a second line for my computer.
But things have once again changed in this busy household of mine and I need to connect the jack that is in that room to the main line. My outside box does not allow access to the cable. From the looks of things it is a completely separate cable from my main line. This house was once used for a business so there are many cables that go into the outside box. Please advise. I can provide pics if that will help. I just moved into a new house and there are blank wall plates in every room with a gray cable behind it.
Could this be phone wiring? How do I determine what its used for? It should run to your phone interface box but may not be connected to the incoming phone line. Depending on the setup in your interface box, you may be able to attach a phone jack to it, then connect it to the leads on the interface box to make it a working phone.
Good luck with your project. Then yellow, black, red and green. How do I hook them up for the phone to work. Hi,I have a question. Do you have a clue to which panel it goes to? I am moving into a business lease spot that has 4 landlines already in use.
I need a land-line as well. Can a fifth land-line be added? How can I tell if a fifth line can be added? Do I need a professional technician? I need the land-line as I want to keep my same phone number and I take visa and master card through my phone as well.
I am trying to install phone jacks for my HO train layout. I have a power pack that has a 4 pin coil wire from the power pack to a hand held controler. This way works fine.
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