Telephone Jack Puns

I removed the only two screws visible, but this Jack won’t budge in any direction. I tried looking for help in the sub, but couldn’t find any that looked like this. pictures of telephone Jack

Hello everyone,

I could sure use some help and suggestions on what’s going on here

I recently found out the wires behind two RJ11 phone ports on my wall were cat5e. (I was studying for Net+ cert when I read that they could use cat5e and went to check. Did not know before that)

I thought this is great I can have an Ethernet port up stairs in the office without having to run a long cable go from downstairs to upstairs and look nice enough for the significant other.

I noticed the cable was cut in half behind the wall plate? But both ends were connected to the RJ11 keystone (maybe keystone isn’t the right word?)

In the kitchen, the cable was the same way, cut in half behind the wall plate, but both ends connected to the keystone.

I chose an end from one cable, wired it to 568B, then went into the basement, found the wire hanging from the ceiling, and wired it to 568B... but when I tested it with an RJ45 tester on both ends only the 5th wire showed up as blinking.

Tried the other end behind the wall plate. Wired to 568B and got nothing when testing.

It seems like all the phone jacks were connected together with one cable? I’m not sure how to go forward to make this work if anyone has any suggestions that would be much appreciated

I know the basics of terminating to a 66 block, I work in IT, but RJ-31X wiring and line seizure is a whole different beast for me. I believe I'm starting to finally understand but just wanted to run this through you guys for some reassurance:

At the moment, we currently have 2 dedicated lines from the telco provider. Unfortunately, the AHJ requires that only POTS be used.

The 2 lines get terminated to a 66 block, and from there, two different FACP panels use those 2 lines and a security system panel also uses it. I've tried working through multiple wiring scenarios, but it just doesn't add up. There's just no way to use 2 lines for all of those units without causing issues right?

Would 2 dedicated lines work for the amount of units we currently have? Let's say 1 line is used as the "primary" for both FACPs. The 2nd line is used as the "secondary" for both the secondary lines FACP AND the security alarm panel's primary line?

Would we instead need to obtain 3 lines? 2 dedicated lines for the FACPs primary jack, and 1 line to act as the "secondary" for both FACPs and primary for the security alarm panel?

Thank you!

Hello all,

I know there's a lot of info on the web as to how to deal with unwanted telephone wires. However, I have a few considerations that make finding an answer for my specific situation difficult. Hoping you can help me out; thanks in advance!
Here are the factors:

1. There are 4 wires: red, yellow, black, green

2. I would like to hide these wires completely so that a bed can be pushed flush with the baseboard

3. I would like to have these wires accessible for the future (don't ask, not my decision...)

4. I still need landline phones to function in other rooms of the house

What I'm confused about is: do I need to CUT wires? Do I use WIRE CAPS or is electrical TAPE fine? Do I need to arrange them in any particular way before shoving them back in the hole? Can I tie a string to the whole thing, push the wires into the hole, and tape the string to the floor?

Thank you!

*Please excuse this horrendously dusty situation

https://preview.redd.it/am2eqxikakf61.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a797a82a53ff1ae326825a01d76543575f073f1d

I am guessing that few of us still use a landline but quite a few of us have those telephone jacks in our walls anyway.

Anyone figure out a cool way to repurpose them? Like Bluetooth speakers? Wifi booster/extenders? I am open to all ideas.

I bought a house and in one of the closets there are two light switches next to each other, with what appears to be telephone cable wiring connected to the switches. From one phone cable wire “feed”: on one light switch, the red and black wires are attached, and on the other light switch, the green and yellow wires are attached.

From what I can tell this is just standard telephone jack wire: it is just white wire with green/yellow/red/black wire inside. The previous owners had loads of telephones (like in every room), but I can’t for the life of me figure this out. Ive played with them a bunch and can’t see that they do anything. I’ve used my electric pen tester on it and not picking any electricity up, so it’s not like normal Romex wiring that is hot with electricity.

What is this for? Why would someone do this? I am so confused lol

I'm moving from a Frontier fiber area to a CenturyLink fiber area. In my Frontier setup, the big Verizon-branded ONT (Frontier acquired VZ territory) was in the upstairs closet, and the modem connected directly to the ONT.

During the sales chat, the rep asked if I needed a new phone jack installed for $99 to support the fiber connection. What? Why would my fiber internet need a phone jack installed?

https://housedok.com/comic/playing-jacks-page-14/

We’re doing a big remodel and I’m wondering if I should go ahead and eliminate all the telephone jacks in the house or keep them?

What is everyone else doing with them?

Hi guys,

My house has a network jack in most of the rooms. I believe they all terminate to a ICC Mini Telephone Module with 8 Ports (SKU: ICRDSVPA10). I'm a little confused and so I've got a couple questions, which might be dumb/redundant. Sorry!

What is this used for?

Am I able the jacks around the house for Ethernet? If so how?

Thanks!

Edit: here's a pic

The wires don't have ends on them, btw.

I have this telephone jack in my room and I was wondering if I could use the existing wire and use a cat5e keystone to turn it into an ethernet port.

The current situation is that the home router is in my dad's office two rooms over from my bedroom. I opened up the wall plate to see what was going on and I guess a single wire was stripped in the middle, the blue and blue-white wires are connected to the plate and the rest of the wires are just exposed in a loop. The wire then continues on to (I'm guessing) another room.

I was wondering, can I cut the connection and feed the wires through a cat5e keystone and will it work as an ethernet port?

I have a few concerns because I don't know too much about networking.

1. The wire doesn't seem to have a brown/ brown-white wire
2. I'm not sure the existing cable is even a cat5

3)The wires coming out of it are thicker and rubbery unlike a lot of the tutorials that show stripped cat5 wires

4)The wire might be daisy-chained

Whole wiring setup

Close up of the wiring

I just bought a new telephone jack wall plate.

There are 4 letters on each screw, do I wire it up like this?

R: Take red and blue/white wires and connect both to this screw

G: Take green and white/blue wires and connect both to this screw

B: Take black wire and connect

Y: Take yellow wire and connect

Old: https://imgur.com/a/qkQULtZ
New: https://imgur.com/a/KNYZv1C

Thanks!