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ril
Citizen
Username: Ril
Post Number: 200
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 3:05 pm: |     |
I need to have 2 phone jacks installed. There is a jack in the apartment, in the kitchen. The phone company wants a whopping $85 for the first and $52 (I think) for the second. They helpfully suggested that "a handy person could do it." Well, I'm not handy. But I'd sure rather pay a real person the $$ instead of Verizon.
Any volunteers/recommendations? |
Sylad
Citizen
Username: Sylad
Post Number: 426
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 3:26 pm: | |
Is it just for telephony or is one for data access?
If just telephony, you can purchase a two phone cordless system for about $60, one base station plugs into the RJ11 jack and power, the other just needs power.
You can also buy a system that allows you to use your electric circut to extend your phone, it is two adapters, one adapter that you plug into any power outlet and into the phone line and then in the other room you plug in another adapter and then your other phone. |
ril
Citizen
Username: Ril
Post Number: 201
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 3:27 pm: | |
it's for the phone, and for a computer with a dial-in connection (yes, old fashioned I know). |
Projects Dude
Citizen
Username: Quakes
Post Number: 7
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 3:30 pm: | |
I recently had a job done around my house by Paul Schneider at Alliance Computer Networks. It was a larger and more complex structured wiring job including ethernet and telephone lines, and terminating in a structured panel box. Paul was very professional and pleasant to deal with, and I highly recommend him. He priced my job quite nicely too compared to others.
I'm sure Paul would know how to do the basic phone jack installation, but I'm not sure if it's too small a project for him, in which case he may then become expensive. No harm calling though. His number is (201) 755-6617. |
Richard O'Connor
Citizen
Username: Roconn
Post Number: 203
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 9:02 am: | |
Telephone (and for that matter structured data with cable tv) is a pretty easy install in most of the homes around here. (Well the older ones)
With my brother in law's help, in a weekend after I moved in I(we) wired every room in my house with two data jacks, an RJ 45 phone jack, an RJ11 phone jack and 1 or 2 cable jacks.
They are in the walls and the wires are there too. Not one unsightly wire on a baseboard or stapled to the outside of my home.
We ran a little over 2000' of cable that weekend, first floor, second floor, third floor. Cut holes in the walls, added boxes, then the jacks. The only thing that is even 'remotely' unsightly is an access door on the landing to the second floor. We had to put that in in order to make a couple of needed holes in the wall structure. Rather than patch it (which was an option) I opted for the access door in case I needed ever to add more (which I actually have).
We pulled the wire in groups of 6 to the third floor (total of 36 wires) and then ran them back down to the second floor rooms.
If you just need a 'couple' of telephone outlets its easy and by going with a handyman/electrician, you get an install where the wires were not stapled to your baseboards and trims.
Richard (ROC)
--Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.--
--AIM: ROConn |
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