Structured wiring panels for the home market have commonly blocks that do the same thing.Īs long as you are doing substantial rewiring Id suggest adding secondary lightning protectors in addition to what the Telco installed. The low frequencies used for POTS voice service are much less susceptible to termination that Ethernet. You can use Type 66 or 110 punchdown blocks to terminate each drop then use crossconnect wire to common them. However if you add a lot of runs this can get messy. Nothing wrong with just adding the new wiring to the same terminals used by the existing. This arrangement creates your own disconnect allowing you to easily disconnect inside wiring to troubleshoot. Terminate inside wiring to the pigtail terminals. Then install RJ11 pigtail connected to a terminal block near the new jack. Install a single line jack for each phone line near the protector, and wire the jack to the protector. If they refuse I'd remove all existing inside wiring from the protector. You may want to contact the phone company and tell then you are upgrading your phone wiring and ask them to install a NID to bring your home up to date. Cat 5e or 6 is well suited for phone wiring and is required for new construction.

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