Did I mention that I don't like telephones?

[mdlbear]

That goes double for telephone wiring. Spent much too long trying to get the livingroom phones reconnected after the plumbers managed to disconnect the old outside wiring that I shouldn't have been using anymore anyway. What I have now is a totally jury-rigged piece of junk, but it at least works well enough to provide a dialtone. On the correct line, which was the most recent in a long chain of problems.

At least the two Cat-5 cables from the livingroom to the server closet were intact; would have been much harder if I'd had to replace them.

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[mdlbear]

Yeah; though figuring out the correspondance between the cat5 and 4-wire color codes was one of the things that took a long time a couple of years ago -- it's not terribly well documented. All of the really old phone wiring is 4-wire, of course.

The things that took a long time this time were stupid things like bad crimps on the plugs, not being able to find any of the eighty zillion RJ-11 patch cords I know I have, and stuff like that.