1 phone line, 1 active phone jack, I want a second active jack for the same line!?

Question

I have one active phone line from SBC/AT&T which carries phone service plus my DSL. I want to activate the phone jack sitting in my room so that I can move my computer to my room (I'm typing this question in my kitchen, sad.......), I have read how-to's and looked around for similar questions with no avail. I would like someone to walk me through it step by step, called phone company who wants $100+ for the job thought I would try it myself first. I opened the NID outside my house, I put a tone on the jack from inside the house but when I went outside with the "wand" AKA "tone probe" I didn't get anything. Could my jack be terminating somewhere? PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

best thing to do if u dont want much of a hassle if run a new phone like from ur NID box to wichever room u want only bad thing about that is that u might have to make a whole tru ur house but if ur house is pre-wired , the mistake my be on the bridge loop let me know which u would want to do and i'll do my best to help ya msg me at [e-mail]

Answer 2

Your plug could have been an old extension that terminated at another plug inside the house.  

You could go wireless to save this trouble, but if you don't want to....

Phone connections run in parallel.  this means, you can piggy back one phone onto another with a double adapter plug, or by connecting the extension wires directly into the inside of an existing plug.  You will also then presumably need another dsl filter, because the frequencies used by the internet, whilst outside the normal hearing range, can cause problems for other equipment.

Pull your existing plugs off the wall, and see if they have more than 1 cable behind them.