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Levition Telephone Line Distribution Module Connections

Hi,

Finishing up the rewiring of my house. Done with cable, network, and speakers. Now I need to hook up a single telephone line to a Levition Telephone Line Distribution Module. Couple of questions. I'm using Cat5e cable and plan on connecting just the blue and white wires to the demarc. Leviton wants all of the Cat5 wires punched down. Is this necessary? If not what slots for the blue and white?

Finally, I want to leave the old phone jacks active. They appear to be home run back to the demarc because there are six telephone wires coming out of the house and connected to the demarc. Can I just add the Cat5 with the phone cable at the demarc? Is this gonna mess anything up?

Thanks in advance.

Reply to
MGGuy
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All you need to terminate is the blue and white if that's what you want to do. Follow the color code on the connectors. The pair goes to the two center pins - 4 & 5. Yes, you can combine the old wire and the new if all you need is a loop system which is fine unless you're installing a KSU and need homeruns to proprietary phones.

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BruceR

In addition, when you pull out the blue pair just wind the rest of them back around the jacket until you need them later. If you're connecting an RJ11 socket you should probably connect both the blue and orange pairs. They're the most commonly wired line 1 & 2 connections.

At some point if you add a second line (voip perhaps) you'd have to go pull that faceplate off, unwind the wire (you did save it, right?) and attach it. Better to just have to connect it only back at the central point instead.

You might want to consider having the wires terminated inside the house and then distributed to the handsets. Doing it all inside the telco demarc box can get a little messy. And if you need to do something special or add a DSL filter it's often easier to do it inside the house. That and not risk someone from the telco 'messing up' what you've done.

-Bill Kearney

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wkearney99

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