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    Anyone here know anything about telephone wiring? If so, i have a couple of questions. I went with the Vonage Broadband phone service so my phone jack is comming from a router connected to my computer. My computer is in my office and not a good place to leave my phone, so what I want to do is run a wire from the router to the wall so that it can transmit the signal to the rest of the phone jacks in the house. All of the phone lines run to one spot outside of the house. How can I connect them so that one line transmits the signal to the rest? Just so you know, the house is wired with Cat 5 wire.
    I've searched for wiring diagrams, but can't find what I'm looking for.
    Thanks
    Pickle

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    Phone wiring uses the same 8 wires as Ethernet wiring, however, when used for phone connectivity the center two wires are the only ones used. If you used T568A then use the wht/blu blu and if you used T568B then you use the same colors. Things is that your Ethernet runs (or should) to a patch panel or punch down block at minimum so there is no easy way to connect them all together. What you can do which would be easier is disconnect the telco connection outside (to eliminate possible voltage) and use the existing wiring. Most houses (builders are cheap) do not home run the phone lines so they are more than likely daisy chained. So if you hook "phone in" to any jack all the others should be "phone out". Only reason this would not work is if your house is divided, meaning you have to different daisy's going opposite directions.
    Where do you live? If all else fails I can swing by I can do this stuff in my sleep.
    Clif

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    The wires came straight out the wall and was left hanging. I went outside and connected each color together and couldn't get it to work. I knew it should have worked though. I played around with it after I posted this only to find out that the router has a dead port. I plugged the wire into the next port and got a dial tone. Thanks for the info.

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