Rewire phone lines myself? (picture included)?

Question

We moved into a house that had two different phone lines. We canceled one and that line was used in a lot of the rooms of the house. How do I get those phone jacks to work with the one phone line we have now? I opened up the box outside and there's a 1 section with a red and green wire and a 2 section with a red and green wire. Now what do I do? How do I move the wires? Here is a picture of the inside of my box http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/iloveliam14/GAHgyliydlr026.jpg

Answer 1

Disconnect the phone wires that go to the house, but leave the wires from the phone company on the terminals.  Put a voltmeter across each set of the red and green terminals and see which pair has -50VDC.  The pair with the -50VDC is the pair you want to use for your phone.  The -50VDC is from the phone company.  Find which wire is the one for the house that you need and connect that pair to pair with the -50VDC and is should work.

Answer 2

This is REAL EASY, I promise.

In the box you showed the picture of, unplug the little black line for the 2nd line, check your house phones that are working, if they are still working, then proceed.  If they quit working, then simply reverse the directions where I say line1 and line2 below.

Unplug both test jacks (the little black lines).

Unscrew the little red and green s***w on the line2 terminals and pull the wires off.

Loosen the red and green screws on the line1 terminals, move those wires you pulled off the line2 terminal to the line1 terminals and re-tighten the screws.

Plug the test jack back in for line1.

Your done.

Answer 3

I answered this the first time you posted it. What you can do is un-plug the links going into the sockets and plug a phone in there. One will have dial tone and the other will be dead. Then as I said, just move all the wires from the one line to the other. It does look like line2 has 2 lines on it and that line1 has more. So I still think that line 1 was the main one that got turned off. wombat is dead wrong as you have a clam shell box with the Telco on the other half. That is why you have the 2 short leads going to the 2 sockets. There are no Telco wires on your side of the line screws. If you can't plug a phone in to the sockets, then I agree that as long as the links are plugged in you could measure the line voltage even with out un-hooking all the wires. Those sockets are wired into the other half of the housing to where the Telco is hooked up.