How to install a phone jack in a room

Now, carefully strip both the old wires and the new wires and connect them according to color. To learn how to choose the best jack for your house, read on! Did this summary help you? Yes No. Log in Social login does not work in incognito and private browsers. Please log in with your username or email to continue.

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Tips and Warnings. Things You'll Need. Related Articles. Article Summary. Part 1. Choose a spot for the new phone jack. Assess your room and think about the best path for the phone wires. If you need a new phone jack on the opposite side of the room from your existing jack, will it be possible to run the wires along your baseboards? Figure out how much new wire you need. Measure the distance from the old jack to the spot where the new one will be installed.

Go to the hardware store and purchase the amount of wire you will need. If your new jack is going to be located several feet from the old one, you should also buy fasteners that are made for keeping the wire in place along walls and baseboards. Choose a new jack. These types of jacks are simply affixed to your baseboard or wall, with minimal drilling required. Affix the new jack to the spot you have chosen. Some jacks come with adhesive backing and simple mounting instructions.

Others may need to be screwed into the wall. Depending on the type of wall you have, this may be accomplished either with a screwdriver and a bit of muscle or with a small drill. Ensure that your jack is not installed at a crooked angle by using a level to help you line up the jack with your floor or baseboard. Attach telephone wire to the old jack. Open the casing, or unscrew the plating, on the old jack.

Loosen the screws that secure the red, green, yellow and black telephone wires. As necessary, trim damage from the old wires and strip the insulation from the tips. Strip the insulation from the tips of the new wires, too. Twist the tips of the new wires with the tips of the old wires according to color: red to red, green to green, yellow to yellow, and black to black.

Replace the twisted portions of the wires under the screws in the jack, and tighten the screws. Thread the new wire through the hole in the phone jack casing, and screw the casing back to the wall. Run the wire from the old jack to the new jack. Using the path you mapped out in your original plan, run the new wire to the new jack.

If you are running the wire along baseboards or up walls, use the fasteners you bought at the hardware store to secure it neatly in place. Attach telephone wire to the new jack. Strip the insulation from the tips of the four wires. Loosen the screws on the back of the new jack, and affix the red, green, yellow, and black wires in their correct color-coded places.

Tighten the screws. Finish installing the new jack. What other checks might be effectively applicable in sorting this no dial tone thing out? Thanks to the phone pros and non pros alike! You might take the cover of the jack and be sure the wires are hooked up to it, then check the interface box outside to be sure the same color wires are hooked up there as well.

If all appears wired properly, my next step would be to try hooking up a new jack to the existing wires. If still no go, try swapping off the existing wires at both the box and jack. Last resort would be to run a new cable from the box. I have a newer home, about five years old or so I think it has the six wire interface box since I have three separate phone lines.

I just bought a Polycom phone which is an analog speaker phone only for my office. I also tried a 6-line splitter to the wall but nothing. My Vtech has an ext. Thanks for this great service. John C. My jacks are the usual red, green, yellow, black, etc. My cable appears to have a solid color next to the same color with white hashes.

So, which one goes to red or green? The solid, or the one with the white hash? I sure hope somebody can help me with this. I just ran a new phone jack into the living room for DSL to our computer.

There are now 3 jacks in the house bedroom, kitchen, and living room. The kitchen and living room are next to each other, but the jacks do not share a common wall. The bedroom phone jack always works. I cannot have anything plugged into the kitchen and living room jacks at the same time because neither will work. Only 1 can be plugged in at a time between those 2 rooms. To further complicate the matter, the phone jack in the living room will randomly dump the DSL signal and will not pick it back up until I pull the jack out and let it hang from the wall.

I have replaced the living room phone jack once, and it worked for a week, but now it quits again. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! I have a question, I just recently signed up for verizon dsl services and they told me that in order for my dsl services to work I would need to install a new jack in my room or re wire the one I already have so that the number I have already will not work on it.

I would like to know how would I go about doing that? I recently signed up for verizon dsl and I need to install a Seperate phone jack so I could use it because its on an seperate account with the phone line.

Hi, 1 What does it cost ballpark figure to run a new cable from the NID through the house for 3 jacks? I was removing wallpaper in the kitchen and had to unscrew the plate cover that has the phone jack in it and the thing you screw the satelling cord to.

When I was scraping the wallpaper, I must have touched the wires with my arm somehow and got a slight shock. Since then, none of our phones will work in the house. I went outside and checked to see if we had service coming into our house and we do. Any ideas on what could be wrong? While you could figure it out by trial and error until you find the combination that works, a better idea is to open up the interface box, find the line that goes to your jack, note the color of the wires that are connected to it, and match those same colors on the jack.

I recently moved into someone elses home, the bedroom that I use has no phone jack and I am wondering how to approach this problem. One phone jack is located in the bedroom next to mine. The phone jack is on the wall in the other room and that wall is the same wall that I have too.

So I use a pin light; shine it from the wall jack, it would go maybe 1 foot through the wall to my wall which looks like its the same wall as his wall is and I could take a drill and drill right through my wall and it would open up and I could unattach his wall jack and attach it to a new wall jack in my room.

I am asking you if this is what I would need to do? I did look in my closet but asside from this big insulated 12 inch diam. Great site! I have an old telephone wall mounted jack. There are 2 wires going into it, each separating into yellow, red, green and black. There are 8 screws available to attach these to—4 on each side of the jack. I have tried connecting the other green with the green still attached to the second screw on the right, but no dial tone.

What should I try? I have a connection in my basement, that has two studs with nuts on left side, and two studs with nuts on the right side. Thgre is a main cable coming in from the box outside, with a black and white wire.

I can send a picture, if that would help. In the box outside, there is a blue pair and ornage pair connected. My lines have never come directly from the external panel. Never mind, I figured it out. I extended the orange twisted pair, and attached them to the second set of studs ti the right, with the wire for the second line. This is an old house, and the studs for the phone connections are just bare, uncovered.

Andrew Says: September 19th, at am Andrew, did you insert the dongles that come with your broadband Modem? You should have gotten about of them for all the other jacks in the house. I tried to switch the face plate with a working one.

The wires are so short-one broke-now it is nearly impossible to hook them up. What do I do? Can I add wire? Hi we tried to install an new jack in a bedroom, it seemed to work but lost the phone in the living room, we have one other phone that does work in another bed room, it is now the only phone to work.

Any idea why the one jack quit working? Any help would be appriecated. I love this site — thank you! Am I correct in assuming one set is for my dsl and the other for the landline? It looks as though they were all attached before but none of the wires are stripped. Thank you for your time. Hello all, I have 3 black wires coming out of the wall and 4 wires from the jack to connect to those 3 wires. The 3 wires from the wall are not color coded, they are black, and by trial and error, I have been unable to get a dial tone.

I have an older home with a telephone connection where i dont want it, i want to remove it. How do you take the jack off? Hello everyone. My friend asked me to hook up several rj45 jacks to handle data from his hub that is in the basement.

The jacks he bought does not have the same color code as my cat5. The other end of my cat 5 will have to have a RJ45 plug crimped onto it. Will my wire order be standard at that end because of this goofy jack? I have an old rotary phone hooked up in the garage with the phone line wired straight into the phone. How can I install a phone jack on this line so that I can place a dsl filter there also and eliminate line noise? The phone is antique but convenient.

Live in a 3 story condo. Have a bedroom right above dining room and there is a phone jack installed in bedroom on 3rd floor in same location. My brother drilled a hole in the wall in dining area expecting to find a telephone wire but nothing. Is it possible to install a wire from phone jack in bedroom to dining area below. Help if you can!!! Hi Rose, Yes, you can run an extension for a new jack from an existing phone jack.

Check out our article on How to Add a Phone Extension to find out more. Hi Rose, It will not be easy to run a phone line from one floor to another. You will have to cut an opening in the wall, drill through the top and bottom wall plates to the stud cavity below, then snake the phone line down the wall and out through an hole in the baseboard.

Good luck with your project! What a wealth of information! I have just bought an old rotary wall phone for my kitchen and LOVE it. A few years ago I used a second line for my computer. But things have once again changed in this busy household of mine and I need to connect the jack that is in that room to the main line. My outside box does not allow access to the cable. From the looks of things it is a completely separate cable from my main line. This house was once used for a business so there are many cables that go into the outside box.

Please advise. I can provide pics if that will help. I just moved into a new house and there are blank wall plates in every room with a gray cable behind it. Could this be phone wiring? How do I determine what its used for? It should run to your phone interface box but may not be connected to the incoming phone line. Depending on the setup in your interface box, you may be able to attach a phone jack to it, then connect it to the leads on the interface box to make it a working phone.

Good luck with your project. Then yellow, black, red and green. How do I hook them up for the phone to work. Hi,I have a question. Do you have a clue to which panel it goes to? I am moving into a business lease spot that has 4 landlines already in use. I need a land-line as well.

Can a fifth land-line be added? How can I tell if a fifth line can be added? Do I need a professional technician? I need the land-line as I want to keep my same phone number and I take visa and master card through my phone as well. I am trying to install phone jacks for my HO train layout. I have a power pack that has a 4 pin coil wire from the power pack to a hand held controler.

This way works fine. I am supposed to be able to disconnect the coil wire from the power pack and reconnect it to a seperate phone jack around my layout. When I try and install additional phone jacks I can not get my locomotives to run properly. I have used 4 pin to 4 pin plugs, 4 pin to 6 pin plugs as suggested by the company that makes this power pack to no avail. I used simple 4 wire red,black,green and yellow wiring to each additional phone jack.

Totally frustrated, appreciate any help. While installing and setting fax on a HP all in one my line went dead during installation. I am having issues with my phone line from Telstra. I have looked in my hills home hub and the blue and white wire are connected from the cable outside. However, it looks as though in the telstra box outside, the orange and white line is connected. Can I simply change the wire in the telstra box to blue to make it work?

Appreciates any help you can give. I have 4 wire phone cable coming into one of the jacks in my house. It quit working I think because of paint getting into it and it was 50 years old anyway. I bought a new jack and rewired it to the old cable. I installed new jacks on new inside phone cable but get no dial tone. I noticed the jacks I bought were 6 pin jacks instead of 4 pin. Do you think that is my problem? Just need 1 pair 2 wires just tie down to the green tip and red ring to the green red which would be for 1 dial tone.

If that does not work , it may not have been the jack that was the problem. Could have been the phone itself , test on another working jack. Could be other inside wire issue. Good luck. It was a wonderful demonstration along with snapshots.

The samsung telephone system installers used for business purpose also needs 10 — 15 wires which need to be connected according to their color. I want to repair an old phone jack, the little box sticking out from the baseboard, which broke open. There are two wires without hooks. I think they may be for another phone.

Is that possible? I am eliminating a business line in my home office which is also used for my DSL. How do I go about doing so? Thanks for you assistance. I read the posts back to But they fit a combination of suggestions. I had eight tiny wires coming out of my thick wire in the wall. Tada, my dial tone works! I have an old faceplace with studs on the front and screws under the front of the faceplate.

How do I easily remove it to replace? I have replaced one phone jack in my own house and it worked when I was done. The phone was going thru the box. I took the box out and tried to reconnect the jack even tried a new jack but can get no dial tone on this outlet.

Is there a way to test the phone line?? Is there any reason the jack would not work now without the monitor? Were do i fine a splitter for a phone jack so i can hook up my copy machine that has a fax with it.

Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Check with your wife before running wire along the baseboard. Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0.

Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 1. If you're doing any computer networking over this wire including fax , you need higher standards or you'll experience slower speeds. This includes DSL and dial-up. If you can hear static or noise on the line, or conversations sound muted, check your work for defects especially shorts as this will especially effect data transmission.

DSL in particular benefits from a home run. Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published. The electricity on this line is pretty safe. When a phone is on-hook, no electricity flows. When a phone is off-hook, about 48V DC flows - safe enough to touch.

But when the phone rings, the voltage changes to 90V AC, which is pretty close to what you have in a normal power outlet. If you're concerned by this, disconnect your phone line at the demarcation point while you're doing the wiring. If you open up the box outside, you should find a plug with a short phone cord. Unplug that and you'll be set. Helpful 1 Not Helpful 2. You Might Also Like How to. How to. Co-authors: Updated: June 6, Categories: Phone Accessories.

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