Adding a Phone line (follow up ?)

<[email protected]> wrote in message
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| I'm running another phone line to my living room. The gang connection
| for the house is in the basement. I'll run it from there to the garage
| and then up to the LR.
| I may as well put a phone outlet in the garage while I'm at it. Question
| is, should I split it off at the garage and then continue up to the LR
| or should I run a completly seperate line for each.

Split in the garage will be fine.

On Jul 4, 5:41 pm, "Calab" <[email protected]> wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> news:7873-486EA6A2-710@storefull-3272.bay.webtv.net...
> | I'm running another phone line to my living room. The gang connection
> | for the house is in the basement. I'll run it from there to the garage
> | and then up to the LR.
> | I may as well put a phone outlet in the garage while I'm at it. Question
> | is, should I split it off at the garage and then continue  up to the LR
> | or should I run a completly seperate line for each.
>
> Split in the garage will be fine.

Do you have DSL internet access? A bunch of unterminated stubs can
cause reflections that can cause your DSL service to be slower.
Separate lines are likely to be worse than a mid-point tap, so to
speak.

Bob Hofmann

Thanks. I'll do the splice.. I have webtv. Since I live here 6 months
and another home 6 months, the msn one plan makes it simple to use both
computer and webtv unit in both places..

On Jul 4, 5:39 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm running another phone line to my living room. The gang connection
> for the house is in the basement. I'll run it from there to the garage
> and then up to the LR.
> I may as well put a phone outlet in the garage while I'm at it. Question
> is, should I split it off at the garage and then continue up to the LR
> or should I run a completly seperate line for each.
>
> The house is new and has seperate lines for each room (they didn't put
> one in the LR- only room without one). Will I have diminished
> performance on the basement and living room lines if I use one line for
> both..?
>
> As far as wiring and hooking up goes, I've done it before so I have no
> problem with that.
>
> TIA

the POTS doesn't care where (or if) there is a split ((if DSL or
lighted dial the water muddies a bit))

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:7873-486EA6A2-710@storefull-3272.bay.webtv.net...
>
>Will I have diminished
> performance on the basement and living room lines if I use one line for
> both..?
no

On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:39:30 -0400, in2-dadark wrote:

> I'm running another phone line to my living room. The gang connection
> for the house is in the basement. I'll run it from there to the garage
> and then up to the LR.
> I may as well put a phone outlet in the garage while I'm at it. Question
> is, should I split it off at the garage and then continue up to the LR
> or should I run a completly seperate line for each.
>
> The house is new and has seperate lines for each room (they didn't put
> one in the LR- only room without one). Will I have diminished
> performance on the basement and living room lines if I use one line for
> both..?
>
> As far as wiring and hooking up goes, I've done it before so I have no
> problem with that.
>
> TIA

Be aware, in newer homes the phone lines use CAT 3 or CAT 5 cables for
phone lines. Older homes had the Red, Black, Yellow, Green lines. The
newer cables have several pairs of twisted pairs; White with strip
matched with Blue with White strip, Orange with White strip, Green with
White stripe or Brown with White stripe. Total of 4 pairs, each pair
separately twisted with it's own matched pair.

You can actually run 4 separate voice phone lines on one CAT 5 cable.
All you need do is check inside your wall plug in front room to see if
you have multi-twisted pair cable for your phone line.

BORGS have wall plate replacements so you can go from 1 phone jack to 2
or 4 phone jacks on a single wall plate. Connect an unused pair to a new
jack on the wall plate, and connect the other end of the pair down in the
basement.

[email protected] wrote:
> I'm running another phone line to my living room. The gang connection
> for the house is in the basement. I'll run it from there to the garage
> and then up to the LR.
> I may as well put a phone outlet in the garage while I'm at it. Question
> is, should I split it off at the garage and then continue up to the LR
> or should I run a completly seperate line for each.
>
> The house is new and has seperate lines for each room (they didn't put
> one in the LR- only room without one). Will I have diminished
> performance on the basement and living room lines if I use one line for
> both..?
>
> As far as wiring and hooking up goes, I've done it before so I have no
> problem with that.
>
> TIA
>
Hi,
My house has 3 levels of living space including finished basement and
back yard gezebo, sunroom, deck, etc. I got tired of running phone lines
every where. Went to cordless set up. One base station with multiple
handsets. Now from any where in the house we can use phone. I even
went wireless with my thermostat for heating/cooling. No more
hassle with wires for that either. I can even move the thermostat around
in the house, LOL.