I have several phone jacks in my apartment & only 1 works. The phone company will charge me $125 bucks to get someone out here. I build computers for fun, so I think I can potentially handle doing this myself. A rep at my phone company stated that on the back of the jack, yellow & black wires are the grounds, green & red are the line. She also said I basically have to refer to the wiring of the working jack to determine which of the 12 unused wires needs to be connected to the red & green.
So I did this. But the working jack has about 3 or 4 splices on the wires right before they connect to the red & green wires. 1 of the splices utilizes a little circuit board. So I traced the splices back until I found the colors of the original wires. I then charted those & tried to fix one of the other jacks. But it doesn't work. I'd be happy to know what the deal is with the funky splicing job. But moreover, how do I get these jacks to work? (Please don't suggest wireless phone jacks, too much $)
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