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"avid_hiker" wrote:

just connect it to the main phone box of Verizon's
on the outside wall

You CANNOT hook up to that box.

He most certainly CAN. In fact, he SHOULD.

If the home has an official SNID, it's even easier now than ever.

This was settled in the 1984 Modified Final Judgement of the Consent Decree
that broke-up The Bell System. (Part 64)

(No, I am not a lawyer. I am a Network Technician. But I LIVED through this
monumental event and absorbed more worthless trivia than I would have ever
thought.)

If you have a basement, the cable coming into the basement from
the Phone box should have a splice for all the phone jack connections.

This is common in "new construction". Unfortunately, many wiremen are
stubbing-out their phone and coax cable ABOVE the rim joist and it makes NO
appearance, whatsoever, in the UNfinished basement.

Many, perhaps even most, older installations "hub" at the "box" where the
service enters the house. This is proper.
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JR