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 Question by Susan Hepton posted 29 Sep 2006
 cat cable 5
We are having trouble hooking up regular phone to the cat cable not knowing what wires to hook up to the cat cable. We just have regular phone to put in. We just have internal net through the phone line.They have cat cable to the box. Thank you for help you can give us.
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 Answer by Joseph Golan posted 03 Oct 2006
Dear Susan,

POTS /9Plain Old Telephone service) uses typically the wh/Blue pair connected to the center pins on a 6 pin modular plug/jack AKA RJ-11.

Sincerely,
Joseph Golan, RCDD

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