Phone wire distance limitations

Question

What is the practical distance limit for running phone wire from the phone company's point of entry to handsets? Our new home is almost 2000 feet from the phone box. If that's too long for ordinary phone wire, will upgrading to direct burial Cat5e or Cat 6 help?

Answer 1

tlbs101 is right, telephone signals should go a lot farther than 2000 feet from the box in any type of telephone wire. If you have DSL, that's another matter entirely.

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Answer 2

According to my Electrical Engineer's Handbook, chapter 22, on point-to-point communication (telephony land-lines), standard phones and switching equipment is designed to work with 26 ga wire at up to 15,000 feet.

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Answer 3

Fiber Optic is the way to go.