Wiring a Home Phone jack 

unbelievable how people dont know how to make a simple video. this was the best one on this issue. thank you.

Thank you so much for these straightforward and clear videos! I just moved into a house that has been converted into two apartments and exactly as you described, the phone company refuses to guarantee service to the apartment. I could pay a tech more than my monthly bill to come out, but I"ve got the tools and would rather do it myself. ✌🏿

Thank you for this video! I was able to replace the phone jack for my visually impaired elderly(86) dad who only wants landline phone to keep in touch with his family and friends🤗

The quality and professionalism in the video are top-notch, earning an A+. It's advisable to terminate both PR 1 and PR 2, even if you only have one line of service. This ensures that it's ready for dual line services like bonded DSL and reduces the risk of loose PRs coming in contact with PR 1/line 1. Thank you for providing such a great video!

You have the sound of jimmy mc guille if you watched "better call saul " ...thanks for the explanation

You are amazing! Thank you for the simple and complete instructions. I am so happy I can fix this myself ☺ Thanks again!

Thanks so much for this video. Simple, well explained and to the point. Solved my problem. I appreciate it.

Used this tutorial, first time ever and seems to work like a charm thank you for saving me money and a headache

Thanks for including the cat 5e cable usage- very helpful!

Great info! Thank you especially for sharing/covering the twisted pairs!

Thanks for this video! I didn't realize how easy it was to replace these jacks. This will save some money.

Dude you are a life saver... Very detailed vid. Thanks!👍

Thanks so much. Pretty sure my ancient biscuit jack is so old that the wiring needs to be replaced. I have to jiggle the phone line at the jack and I was looking for just this info so I could do that. Very helpful!

So using commercial wire, use white wire for green and the blue for red post, 2nd line is orange+white is green and solid orange is blue. Got it. Thank you!

This works. Bought a house that was wired but the phone jack wasn't connected. Saved the cost of a house call

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I was tired of waiting for someone to fix my phone jack so I found your video & did it myself. Thanks again.

Very helpful!

Thanks for the video, very helpful.

Great video. What I was looking for. I just have a question tho.. On my flush mount I have 2 washers on each screw on the back.. so where would I wrap each wire at? At the very bottom touching the the wall mount wires or in the middle of the washers/each washer like layers separate from one another by a washer?? Or does it matter?

Hello and thank you for the info! I am slowly repairing the aftermath of my kitchen after my contractor abandoned us without finishing. My problem is that I have two commercial cables emerging from my phone jack. I'm assuming I only need to use one set, but is there a way to select which one? Thank you!

Thank you, got my problem all sorted out

Thank you so so much. Very helpful.

brings back memories of being 12-13 years old messing with phones!

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed.

Good video. My problem is, I have a two port jack near my computer desk. One side I believe is not functional. Therefore, I have a triple splitter I the working port. One connected to a VoIP tell,one to a cap tel phone and one to a printer. I would like to add a two port biscuit jack. Can I run wire from my existing jack to the two port new biscuit jack, that would give me three ports to plug in my devices opposed to utilizing a three port splitter? Thank You

Thanks, this was very helpful

Hi! Good video. Im thinking about changing my old phone cable to a cat 5e, all the way from the box outside. But.. My cables are blue, green, red and black. Would you know which cat 5 colors correspond whit what colours on my old wire? Thanks.

Thanks - this really helped

We have only 3 pair I can see - green white and green pass through from one side of the cable to the other without being used in the outlet, and then blue/blue white, and orange/ orange white are connected from both sides to the jack in the kitchen, which is a pretty old jack - it looks like it must be wired in series with other outlets in the home, so it passes through for the 2 pairs which are used, and not sure about the green white / green which passes through without being used, and if there is a brown white / brown, it must be snipped off on both sides, as I can't see it in there? any thoughts? thanks for the great video.

Thank you so much!

Very helpful! How do you attach the biscuit to the wall?

Great and information wiring information. I think I can do it myself and I'm a girl..Haha, I was my dad's son until my brother was old enough.

Best video thank you

Thank you very much. You may have saved me about $200.00 dollars for a Verizon home visit.

Thank you!

how do you know if a cable is a line board cable?

Great help. Do you have a video how to run a new inside wire from the phone box outside the house?

Looks easy enough. Question. My internet went out so I checked my phone that's also connected to same jack and there was no dialtone. I checked a different jack in the house and it was the same thing. Absolutely nothing. But if you plug in a phone outside to nid box there's a dialtone. Can one bad jack effect all other jacks so none have a dialtone?

Trying to get an idea if it’s hard to wire a 2nd DSL line in my home. I have a spare Jack in my bedroom. Would it be hard to wire it to the 2nd dsl line?

Thanks. I'll check that out.

How can I figure out which line is which on an old house where all three lines coming into the house are black? Thank you.

So I bought a new white phone jack plate but it doesn't have the four generic colored wires connected on the back. I have commercial wiring only coming out of the wall where my old jack was. Do i need the other wires?

awesome thx!!!

sir told me about two wire connecter for intercom

So I have a Digital telephone line with a corded wall mount phone ,what would it take to make a cordless handheld phone work ? Would you have any ideas?

Are there different thicknesses of wire for better internet. I'm getting 36 megabits my company tells me out side the house but only 23 inside. So I'd guess it's my wire coming in the house slowing it down. What thickness is best for this purpose, thanks!

Hello I have question.. I have a fiber internet from centurylink that wired to phone jack. I added a phone line and used a splitter but it not work. Do I need to wire a separate like buy a new wall jack with 2 jack post?

I was thinking about coming from the D box outside and replacing the incoming wire. I had the phone guy out and he said I had static on the line but is was good outside at the box.

Thank you

highly appreciated

Can you show how to connect the twisted wires to the biscuit/surface jack

What do you do after you wire it? He didn't mention installing the jack into the wall.

Thanks alot i appreciate it.. great video in many ways.. im sure you know why and what I mean.❤

Can you do a video explaining RJ21 and 110 blocks ? I run into these in the field quite a bit and have a tendency to get a bit lost..

CAT5 Cable Wire to Jack = White with a blue stripe wire goes on green post. Blue wire goes to the red post for a single phone line.

can someone tell me if you can use the telehpone wire into a cat5e keystone jack?

My phone Jack has 6 terminal screws to land the wires does that matter. Btw my house has commercial wire

so i'm thinking of getting a rotary telephone, but the phone has 3 prongs at the end of the cable (colors red, green & yellow) now my question is, would i need to get the little"biscuit" converter box and put the prong ends into their respective screws and then plug in the phone jack that goes into the wall?

thank you for the information, if possible can you show how to install a light on a land line phone to visually see if the phone is ringing , I have a hearing problem , thank you

Great video. I have a question for you, I have one biscuit jack in my house that continually keeps going bad within a year or two. I just did a continuity test on the posts and all went to 1 except yellow which went to a 2 from screw post to the wire where the terminal is. From post to the end of the wire sticking out the outside of the terminal I don't think the continuity fell below 17 at best.. most of the time in the 100s with multimeter. Do you know what would cause this?

lol i used the small wire with the plug and it worked well because there is no phone lines where i live

Thanks, bro.

Can I do it while electricity is on the house or do I teurn it of

thanks so much

I’ve got a four wire 1934 phone I’d like to connect to the biscuit Jack. How do I handle the wires coming into the biscuit Jack so I don’t get zapped? I have no idea where it comes into my electric panel to flip that switch off…..

What if you have black and white cables coming off the phone cable instead of the 4 colors?

Can I do this if I don’t already have a phone jack?

Can I use a different wire if my blue and white one is too short?

Very helpful ty ....gonna change a old grandma wall jack in my kitchen. 😊

Hi, so I just bought a old house from 60s, has no phone jacks or not even a network interface device this house is for my mom, she is a security freak kinda and we are changing baseboards because super ugly I think it even has abscesses (I apologize my wrong spelling I’m a in a hurry for my night shift) so basically during the baseboards open we are going to add a Honeywell hardwired alarm system, cable TV jacks and internet and phone jacks, now my question is could I buy cat5e or cat5 or cat3 cable expose copper, and wire into her phone jacks that we will buy. But can I just put a normal rj11 end on the cat5e, cat5 or cat3 cable? Also she has a optimum modem and she has a really old western electric wall rotary ohone, I guess I would be able to just slide the phone down the jack. I would like to just buy real phone cable like, cat5e or cat5. Or cat3 cable and just wire that into phone jack and do rj11 end so she can plug into opitum modem, then I guess I’ll get a three port phoen splitter since she has three bedrooms this way she can use her old western electric touch tone phone.

The colors of my wire doesn't match the box.Edit 5:41 you answered my question. Thank you

Century Link quoted $100 for a tech to come out and install a flush mount jack in apt that is wired. Not! RU-vid it instead. Thank you for saving me $$$

So I have the brown, orange, blue .... one. Is there anyway to get wifi from these?

almost ready to repair however we have 8 wires ( blue, green, orange, copper, white& blue, white&green, white&orange,white&copper) we only have one line- any suggestions?

I know it’s an old standard, but you didn’t mention the old Bell Systems 4 prong POTS jack!

Nice ilike

I'm having a problem where I can't receive incoming calls but I can call other people no problem. This only happens when its connected to the wall plug and not the modem. Anyone have any idea?

I have just white and green wire How to wire it ?

do you need to turn the power off?

Thank you very much for your videos I learned a lot. My question is what would be the best and neatest way for me to terminate my phone lines going to my house? Its a older home with a crawl space so running wire isn't that difficult. I will be using cat5e wire. I want it to look clean and easy to work on if a problem comes up in the future. Again thank you very much and happy holidays.

Hi. Is it in Australia phone line?

Can you show how to repair a data jack?

5:13 haha I was gonna do dat

thise video very importanent

Well, Only if the home Telephone is nescessary to activate a new cell phone unit (if you purchased a new prepaid cell phone unit).

Does anybody have a clue what the 8 wire colors and terminal locations are for 4 phone lines for going from 8 wire OLD color code to the NEW 4 pair color code??? I know the last four old colors are white blue grey and brown but, I can’t find any diagrams for proper termination of the old colors on the new green & white/green and brown & white/brown colors??? From what I’m told its 8 wire USOC color code converted to new 4 twisted pair color code using USOC pin out. My old house has 8 wire but the terminals aren’t marked and only 4 are used right now but, I’d like to use all 8 wired correctly. I know only this so far! Line 1: ring: old red to new blue, tip: old green to new blue/white Line 2: tip: old black to new orange/white, ring: old yellow to new orange Line 3: tip: old ????? to new green/white, ring: old ????? to new green Line 4: tip: old ????? to new brown/white, ring: old ????? to new brown

Just wanted to comment that I had internet and home phone issues to only find it that the technician NEVER stripped the wires. Stripped and bam, problem solved.

note to self 5:55

5:36 ill be back

My house has commercial wiring for my phone Jack? It's an old house, my phone jack isn't working and I'm trying to set up my Wi-Fi I only hace one phone jack, it's a biscuit I tried to wire the light blue wire to the green and blue to the red but it's not working

Can you grab those bear wires with your hands out side if its hot line to telaphone company if they are wet wont that shock you i have tryed to repare lines wonce before and i fray the wires with my mouth i know dum and it sbocked in the moulth

use a phillips guys not a flat head make ur life simpler.... if every tech uses a flat head the screw will strip and then u need to install a wholeeeeeeeeeee new jack

Probably should learn this sorry ass Century link won't service in your home now due to " covid restrictions" or more like ...we don't want to support our dsl product but were happy to collect $$$ for it.

Seems like a waste of material

Thank you!