New phone line wire from the outside box to inside your house, repair landline, THE TRUTH, it's easy

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• published: 09 Apr 2016
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This video shows several things, but mainly it shows how to replace an old phone wire running from the phone box (service box) probably located outside on the back of your house to the inside of your house. Running a new telephone wire is really pretty easy to do. Think of two cans and a string, Except it is 2 wires instead of the string. And instead of cans, you connect the wires to phone service on one end, and connect to a gizmo which you plug a phone into on the other end. Simply attach two wires to the two screws inside the phone service box, run that wire around the house, push it through the wall and attach the same two wires to the phone jack gizmo which you plug your phone in to and it will work. The wires are attached and joined together using screws. While watching the video it is OK to rewind and re-watch the parts that have writing on the screen. I may have done a bit too much on screen writing, but I wrote it to OVER-explain things. If you have a land line phone (btw- "land line" is not a dirty word) there is probably a gray colored box on the outside of your house which will probably is labeled "TELEPHONE NETWORK INTERFACE" and there is probably a "customer access" side which is is probably labeled "customer access", as shown in the video. Your customer access is probably on the left side and you can probably open it with a common screw driver. I say "probably" because colors, locations, allowed access, sides of the box, etc, etc, probably vary across the world... but hopefully yours is exactly the same as seen in the video to keep things simple. I was pretty sure that this would all work, but I wanted to demonstrate how a person who is not sure about doing this how they can try a simple "short run test" connecting a phone using a short wire to see if they can add or replace a phone line from the box to somewhere else. If it works on the short run it will work on a long run. If your outside phone box is the same as mine and you can open it... Inside the "customer access" side there will probably be a common telephone plug which is plugged in and goes to the phone company side. The other end of the plug goes to screw connectors, which can be used to connect your cable wires. After connecting your cable wires to the screws you can then run the cable around and into your house, providing phone service. That is all I am suggesting anyone does. If you are doing new service BE VERY CAREFUL to pick a proper spot for the hole into your wall where you WILL NOT drill into anything like electric lines, water lines, heating lines etc. Use common sense. In the video I use the same hole in the house as before so it was simple. That is all I am suggesting anyone does. It is easy to connect cable and wires to the 2 screw connectors in the telephone box and it easy to run cable wire along the out side of your house, meaning it is easy to replace a an old worn out phone line. The video shows how I did that. The video also shows how to attach wires to the phone jack (the "gizmo") which is inside your house. Simply attach wires to the screws/nuts on the telephone jack. If your telephone jack only has two wires it is easy. If your phone jack has four wires inside of it you have to figure out which 2 wires you need to use to make the phone work and get a dial tone. Mine used the green and red wires. The video gives you a tip on how to make sure this is all going to work before you get in too deep, or run a lot of wire. Do a "short run test." This will make sure you have everything ready to go and it will work if you run a long line around your house. The video shows you how and where to test to see if there is working service to your house (to the outside box). Use the plug on the customer access side of the TELEPHONE NETWORK INTERFACE box to plug your phone in directly. The video gives a tip on how to test to see if your internet speed is as fast inside your house as it it up to outside box. If you have old worn out wires they may be slowing down your internet service. You can test this by hooking up the modem and checking your speed directly at your phone box. Then compare that speed to where you usually hook up inside the house. If the speed is slower inside then you might want to run a new telephone wire. This video shows you how to do that. This video does not show or talk about running wires around the interior walls inside your house. The video simply shows how to run the wire/cable around the outside of your house and then attach the phone jack on the wall directly (through the wall) inside using an existing hole. BE CAREFUL IF YOU DRILL A NEW HOLE. Even if you only need 2 wires (1 pair) for one phone line it is OK to use a cable with more wires in it. What you buy depends on what is available and most affordable for you. If anyone sees a glaring error or omission feel free to tell me about it so I can update this written information.