"thumor" wrote in message
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Recently bought house. Phone jacks in almost every room.
Ordered new connection from Verizon. Works only in one room.
They say previous owners had atleast 3 lines. They had it wired that
way.
Asking for 95 for first line, and about 50 for each additional line to
rewire!!!!

Anybody else encountered this before?
Any solution / work around except wiring myself from inside using one-
to-many jacks
available in stores?

If the wiring is reasonably modern and orderly, then each of the lines
probably went to an interface box in the garage or basement or wherever the
wires enter the house from the street. The interface box is just a little
plastic thingy stuck to the wall with a phone jack on it. Everything leading
up to that phone jack belongs to Verizon. The wire that you plug into it and
everything after that belongs to you. If you're lucky, then you'll find
several interface boxes right next to each other with separate wires going
into each one. All you'll need to do is to get a splitter (one male plug and
multiple female jacks) and then plug that splitter into the working
interface box and then plug all the wires into it. To determine which is the
working interface box, just take a phone out to where the boxes are and try
each one.

However, I would still go with the solution of getting a multi-handset
cordless phone and plugging the base unit into the working jack.