Telephone Forensics.
Mar. 18th, 2007 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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taxlady tracing phone lines to figure out how the house is wired. We have two phone lines, and there is much evidence that lines have been cut, spliced and re-routed in the past. We have determined that the repositioning of the house's main phone junction box is unlikely to be the horrible disaster I had feared. The one line that may have to be cut and rerun is a short line for a single jack, not the feed for the upper two floors, as I had believed.
If I screw up its wiring, all we'll lose is that one jack. I would be far more confident of the job if they didn't insist on color-coding the wires. Worse, this is Quebec so I can't even trust that the right color wire was used for the right signal, even if I wasn't color blind and could read the wires. Now, I do have a phone tester which I plan to use to ensure that after I have opened up and played with the innards of a box, that the phones are correctly wired.
There's only two problems:
Okay, first I'm going to go and read up on correct phone wiring procedures in my Library Book of Same, and then I shall grit my teeth and do the job. If we lose all phone and internet connectivity for the next six months, you'll know what caused it.
taxlady tracing phone lines to figure out how the house is wired. We have two phone lines, and there is much evidence that lines have been cut, spliced and re-routed in the past. We have determined that the repositioning of the house's main phone junction box is unlikely to be the horrible disaster I had feared. The one line that may have to be cut and rerun is a short line for a single jack, not the feed for the upper two floors, as I had believed.If I screw up its wiring, all we'll lose is that one jack. I would be far more confident of the job if they didn't insist on color-coding the wires. Worse, this is Quebec so I can't even trust that the right color wire was used for the right signal, even if I wasn't color blind and could read the wires. Now, I do have a phone tester which I plan to use to ensure that after I have opened up and played with the innards of a box, that the phones are correctly wired.
There's only two problems:
- Its output is color-coded.
- Its telling me that one of the houses two lines (the original one) is universally mis-wired.
Okay, first I'm going to go and read up on correct phone wiring procedures in my Library Book of Same, and then I shall grit my teeth and do the job. If we lose all phone and internet connectivity for the next six months, you'll know what caused it.
