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Mt completely amateur experience is that you can hook up phone wires
just about any old way and they'll work. The only caveat is if you
want to run DSL thru it, you need to make all the connections nice and
tight. I do my phone wiring in a star pattern.

Interesting you brought up a point about DSL. We are running two lines in
the house. The line I am wiring now is not being used for DSL. The other
line is. My downstairs DSL telephone line works fine. It is connected to
the computer modem and telephone. The phones upstairs pick up static at
unpredictable intervals. There are no computer modems up stairs. It's very
annoying as the static can be very loud at times. I've come to the point
that I am reluctant to call or answer calls on these phones.

Someone told me it could be the DSL connection causing the problem. I found
that a bit bizarre as the lines downstairs do not pick up static. I use
filters on all the DSL-lined phones. You mentioned that you make an appoint
to make all connections nice and tight and run the wiring in a star pattern.
Do you do this to avoid static or is there some other reason?

This static problem was on my very low priority list, but if the solution is
simple I might tackle it sooner than later. I had a feeling I had stapled
through one of the wires and I was picking a shortwave radio connection of
sorts. Never really thought it could be a connection problem at one of the
jacks.