On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:52:06 -0000, 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 atleast 3 lines. They had it wired that
way.

If I had two other people here, I wouldn't want them to be able to
listen to my line from their rooms. So of course, each of the three
lines went to one room.

All you have to do is go down in the basement and remove two sets of
interior wiring from their (dead) connections to the outside, and put
them on top of the outside wire that has a dial tone. Then that
outside set of wires will go to all 3 rooms and probably every other
room. (Either it was line number one, or Verizon happened to pick the
line that had only one room connected to it.)

You can use any corded telephone and if it has a modular plug on the
end, get a surface mount box, plug it in to that, take the box cover
off, and attach wires with alligator clips on each end to the red and
blue screws. Use the other ends of the wire to search for the dial
tone.

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?

I don't understand this sentence, but see above.

Thanks.