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[Michele <mixel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken,

Thanks, that was very helpful. The link was especially helpful, certainly 
thorough! I'm not
sure what I'm going to do, as I don't have a basement or an attic to run the 
wires through
invisibly like in the pictures below... and the "professional jacks" I 
mentioned in my home
look nothing like the little plastic off-white colored jacks I'm traditionally 
familiar
with. I'm wondering if maybe they aren't rj-45 jacks at all, and are something 
else
entirely. (I tried buying the RJ-xxx super-duper cord things.. you know the 
kind with the
connector that has 8 wires / up to 4 lines vs the traditional RJ-45s which have 
the 4 wires
and support up to 2 lines... the newer 8-wire connectors don't fit into my 
jacks. the
regular rj-45s do, but I get no dialtone.

So... I think I will have to go get the little voltage meter at radio shack.

Thanks for the help!

"Kenneth J. Kovler" wrote:

>
> In most homes your going to find just two wires that are used. I believe
> they are red and green, but I would use a voltmeter(get a cheap one from
> radio shack if you don't have one) and find out which two wires have
> voltage on them. You should measure about 48 volts DC. Then it is just a
> matter of connecting these two wires to a phone. There are jacks and cable
> you can buy to do this. If your going to install multiple phones just run
> another phone cable from one jack to another and connect red to red and
> green to green at both ends. BTW there is very little current on these
> wires, so if you should touch them you won't get shocked!
>
>  Check out popular mechanics on line for a much better explanation.
>
> http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/homei/9709HIHIM.html
>

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