[GreenKeys] OT Pots DSL Filter

Bob kb8tq kb8tq at n1k.org
Sat Apr 29 20:15:37 EDT 2017


Hi

Telephone stuff in the home is all hooked in parallel. 

You appear to have a pretty limited number of wires 
hooked up to that block and a whole lot of wires simply
cut off and left dangling …

I haven’t seen the inside of that block, so no idea what
sort of terminations it uses.

Bob



> On Apr 29, 2017, at 6:50 PM, rice <riceboxjim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings GKers
> 
> I recently went back to DSL CenturyLink internet service from my High Cost Xfinity Cable.
> 
> I need to troubleshoot 2 non dial tone lines in the home itself
> 
> Having limited telephone wiring experience, these questions are now floating in my head
> 
> 1. Do all telephone lines in the walls hook up in series or parallel at the pots box ?
> 
> 2. Having a new DSL pots box filter/splitter is new to me, when I open same, which tool is used to punch down pairs on this thing ?
> 
> I'm only familiar with a 66 block from years past. :  (
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> 
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