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Default 2 phones numbers on 1 phone line (4-wire)

"mm" wrote in message
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Terry is right. Just buy a splitter. It looks like one of the things
that have a modular plug and two modular jacks, about an inch by an
inch big, for getting two phones out of one jack. But a splitter will
have a "1" on one jack, and a "2" on the other jack. The 1 side willl
have the red and green and the 2 side will have the black and yellow.
(The more common kind, the "2 in 1", won't have any numbers because
both outputs are the same.)

You can also tell by looking into the jacks. The "2 in 1" will have 4
copper springs inside each of the jack holes.

The splitter will only have two spring wires in each, the center two.
The leftmost and right most of the four slots will have no wires.


Thanks. I'll look for that and try it.