I need to wire 8 phone jacks to 1 phone line using a 66 block for my home. I have looked and looked and all I can find are over-complicated wiring diagrams that I do not understand. Please help me.
First of all, I am not using Cat5 cable, just regular phone cable (I do not know what it is called). Each phone jack has 3 pairs of wires connected to it, but I'm only gonna use 1 pair right?. All the cables to the jacks and the demarc are already in place, I just need to connect them at the 66 block. I have all the tools I need.
The 66 block supports up to 50 pairs (just like this one:
- aa bb
- cc dd
- ee ff
- gg hh
- ii jj
- kk ll
- mm nn
- oo pp .........
For the uplink to the demarc, there is 1 pair of wires. From the top of the 66 block, I ran one of these wires down the far left column and the other down the far right column, punching down the first 8. I then took one of the phone jack lines, used the blue and blue-white wires to punch down to the 2 center connections on the top row. I have a dial tone for the jack, but......
I get shocked when I touch the left and right connections on the 66 block at the same time. I must be doing something wrong. Also, I'm not using any of the bridge clips that came with the 66 block, so that also leads me to believe I'm doing something wrong, but the phone jack that is connected is indeed working along with my DSL.
Can someone please explain how to wire this correctly? I just want my POTS lines to work without shocking me. I do not care to about using VOIP, Cat5, adding additional lines, etc.
TIA, Jack