Adding a Phone Jack
Wiring a 2nd Line
Wiring a 3rd Line
Wiring a DSL Splitter

  Blue   Orange   Green   Brown  Slate 
 White  Red  Black  Yellow  Violet 
What do all the wire colors mean?


Click here to discover a special symbolic meaning for each of the wire colors!


Things to Check Before Calling Your Phone Company Repair Service

Need a Printed Version?

Why would I want to do my own telephone wiring?
Why would I want more than one phone line?
Why does HomePhoneWiring.com exist?
Why does this site look "old"?


Please read these caution statements
before doing any phone wiring using the advice provided on these pages.

Did this web site save you a pile of money?
Help support the site by clicking here.
Check out the great gifts you can receive for making a donation!

Links to My Main Pages:
Add a Jack | Wire 2nd Line | Wire 3rd Line | Wire DSL | Wire Colors
Wiring Block Techniques and Tips | Shop at HomePhoneWiring.com

Links to My Info Pages:
Safety Cautions | Color Codes | Network Interface (NID)
Jacks/Adapters | 2 Line Jacks | Jack Standards
Repair Service | Cable Routing | Tools
DSL Splitter at NID | DSL Splitter at Star Hub
DSL Splitter at the Router | DSL Splitter and Alarm Systems
Why do wiring? | Why more lines?

Some useful outside links:
Sites that support HomePhoneWiring.com,
non-phone related advice sites, and
HomePhoneWiring.com customers.

Regional Bell Operating Companies and Local Exchange Companies
Manufacturers and Vendor/Distributors for Jacks and Tools
Other Phone Wiring Advice Pages and other links

Comments or questions about this Web Site?
Click here to send e-mail to Phone-man.

This site is continuously under construction.
If the info you need is not here yet, check back at a future date.

You are visitor counter since 01/31/2006.
Counter provided by: Free Web Stats

On 01/31/2006 the counter for this site was reset to zero when I changed to StatCounter.com,
to provide better statistics by counting unique site visits.
Between 06/16/2002 and 01/31/2006, there were over 1,137,000 visits to this site
as counted by bCentral Fastcounter.
Between 05/14/1997 and 06/16/2002, there were over 454,000 visits to this site
while it was posted at URLs www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/4116/
and www.geocities.com/phone-man.geo/.
This site is best viewed at 1024 x 768 resolution or higher.  If you use a lower resolution or are having problems viewing this page, you might prefer to view index-frame3.shtml to visit HomePhoneWiring.com without the left side menu frames.

Copyright © 1996-2017 Keith A. Michal All Rights Reserved.
All trademarks and logos shown herein are the property of their respective proprietors.