In article .com,
thumor wrote:

Recently bought house. Phone jacks in almost every room.
Ordered new connection from Verizon. Works only in one room.
They say previous owners had at least 3 lines

Reactivating the "correct" line to a formerly-multi-line premise is a crap
shoot under the best of circumstances.

The irony for me as an "insider" is that our systems KNOW which is the primary
line and which is secondary (and so on), yet we routinely fire-up the
SECONDARY (or other) line when only one line is reactivated.

If your home has a SNID (Standard Network Interface Device) AND you are handy
with 24-gauge wire and needle-nosed pliers, the "fix" for this is simple:

Inside the "Customer Access" door of the SNID, verify the working line and
move all the wires to THAT position and binding posts.

They had it wired that way.

That goes without saying.

Asking for 95 for first line, and about 50 for each
additional line to rewire!!!!

We're 99 and 60.

Forget all that crap. If you DON'T have a SNID, tell 'em you want all your
stuff to work or they should install a SNID (NO charge) so that you can do the
work yourself.

If you DO have a SNID, do the above procedure, relax and enjoy all your jacks.
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JR

Climb poles and dig holes
Have staplegun, will travel