Tech help needed

[Tiger Teeth]

(02-03-2019, 03:10 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Old 4 wire phone lines are pretty much obsolete but the basic premise is this; a telephone needs 2 wires for a dial tone--red and green (tip and ring). The other 2 wires--yellow black (t1 and r1) can do a couple things, either provide a 2nd phone line on that one wire, or more commonly, carry the dial tone down the line--commonly called daisy chained or wired in series. The easiest thing to try is to just buy a 4 wire telephone jack and plug it into that. If the line is wired in series, your problem is solved. If it doesn't solve the problem, you're going to need to know how the phone lines were wired up...possibly to a punch down block.

Yeah, this is pretty much what I was going to say.