On 28 Oct 2006 10:54:48 -0700, wrote:

I would be grateful for any assistance with the following:

Until about a month ago we had two conventional telephone lines in our
home. We recently removed a business line from our home phone network,
and now have one residential line. The business line had a 482
exchange. The residential line had a 972 exchange. Here is what
happened:

The 972 line was in service for several years before we added the 482
line.

--972 line has conventional wall outlets throughout the house.

--482 was wired to service a single jack in the home office.

To make a long story short, we decided to keep the 482 line and
discontinue service for the 972 line. My idea was to use a cordless
phone and base that we would install in the 482 phone jack in the
office, and then have cordless units throughout the house.

It worked for a while, but recently we have been having trouble with
the cordless phones, and now I would like to alter the phone line
wiring (presumably at the NID) so that the 482 exchange can be accessed
at the various wall outlets throughout the house.

My assumption is that this is a relatively simple effort that involves
switching the wiring at the NID, and possibly behind the wall outlet in
the office. I have done some research on the net on this topic but
have only found information pertaining to adding a line, not removing
one.

The office wall outlet for the phones has two openings, one each for
the 972 line and for the 482 line. See this following pictu

-- http://home.comcast.net/~bwv871/wiring6.jpg

I removed the outlet from the wall.

This photo shows an in focus view of the blue wiring at the top of the
bar; all wires are connected properly, so I am assuming that this is
the 482 line, which is giving a dial tone.

When you do your testing, you don't have to firmly connect the wires
to the screws. Just touching them both to separate screws will give a
dial tone, or the ability to hear whatever the phone line is saying.

In Chicago, when I was searching for a phone line among many, I would
call the Weather, because in those days, the weather would play and
play for hours I think without ever hanging up. In Baltimore these
days, the weather plays twice and then hangs up.

--http://home.comcast.net/~bwv871/wiring5.jpg

--This photo shows an in focus view of a green wire that has detached
from the grommet that connects it to the lower part of the bar. I have
not yet reattached it, but I have to assume that it is part of the old
972 line:

--http://home.comcast.net/~bwv871/wiring7.jpg;

Please stop putting punctuation or any other characters than a space
before or after a URL. If you want a semicolon after the url, put a
space in between. If you had done that, most of us could just click
on the urls. Now I don't think many can. I can't, on the two above
or several below. (The characters before http keep my software from
considering the rest of it a url. Characters afterwards just make it
an invalid url.)

Here are photos of the wiring at the NID:

--http://home.comcast.net/~bwv871/wiring1.jpg

--http://home.comcast.net/~bwv871/wiring3.jpg

The photo immediately above shows green and white wires that connect
to another, much older interface device which links to a 482 telephone
at an outbuilding on the property. Here is a photo that shows how that
line is wired.

--http://home.comcast.net/~bwv871/wiring4.jpg

Again, any help in figuring this out would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.