- #IF I HAD XFINITY CAN I SWITCH FIOS SELF INSTALL INSTALL#
- #IF I HAD XFINITY CAN I SWITCH FIOS SELF INSTALL MANUAL#
If your house phones are in series, then the RG will easily feed signal to all of them, and if they are in parallel, then the connections you made at the NID still allow you to back feed into the house. Go to the outlet that you want to connect your RG at and use a simple 2 line splitter, feeding line 2 to the RG in, and line 1 from the Phone 1 out on the back of the RG. If there are more pairs, you have to do alittle more work at the NID to connect all the pairs from the first line, and know which pair goes to the jack you want for the RG on the second line wires. If there was only 1 pair of each color at the NID then the house lines were in series. For my house the first line pair was "blue" and the second line was "orange". When you connect the VDSL pair in the NID use the "second line" pair in your original house wiring, disconnecting the "first line" pair at the NID. If your hous already has a standard Cat3 (4 conductor phone wire) you can use that to easily feed your VDSL signal into your house and backfeed the rest of the house from there. I've been going through an instll like this recently and thought I might add a few comments to help users out as well. I have an apt with our electrical to come out and make this drop for us but was considering doing the dop my self until I look at the phone jack which now has a white hood like cover on the wall plate and looks to be two outlets one for the phone and one for the internet? I assume the wiring inside the phone jack can't be that complicated?
#IF I HAD XFINITY CAN I SWITCH FIOS SELF INSTALL INSTALL#
There are three kinds of people, those that can count, and those that wrote:įWIW: ATT did my entire install for my U-verse, in the room with the "RG" due to the computer being on the opposite end of the room as the jack, we now have a white cat 5 type cable running across our carpet since the tech would not go into our attic and drop another phone line on the correct wall. I really want to become a procrastinator, but I keep putting it off. How can you be in two places at once, when your not anywhere at all? Note: If you had regular ADSL before this, make sure to remove any of the DSL filters you have plugged into the wall jacks. Next plug your phones into any wall jack in the house and you should be good to go. Next, plug a phone cord into the L1 socket on the splitter and into the "PHONE1" port on the RG. Next, plug a phone cord into the L2 socket on the splitter and into the "DATA" port on the RG. Then, inside you would plug the line splitter into the wall jack. If your wiring is just the 4 conducter like I described (red and green being used) just swap the red and green wires connected in the NID/NIB with the yellow and black wires and close it up. To determine this you will need to open the NID/NIB and check which 2 wires are used and you should open up the wall jack as well to verify that it is the same wiring inside the house (also make sure that the yellow and black wires are connected to the wall jack you intend to use for the RG). Basic POTS phone and ADSL/VDSL only require 2 of those wires (normally the red and green). Your wiring may differ (different colors or more wires in side the cable) but don't panic. These will more than likely be red, green, yellow, and black. Your basic phone wiring in your house normally consists of a cable with 4 seperate wires inside it. You should be able to find this at local hardware and home improvement stores as well.
You will also need a phone line splitter like this (around $5.00).
#IF I HAD XFINITY CAN I SWITCH FIOS SELF INSTALL MANUAL#
Note: You will need to do a little manual work using basic hand tools (screwdrivers, wire cutters/strippers). That being said I'll try to give some instructions for this. Any other type of Uverse installation, or no existing Uverse at all, would definitely make these a much more complicated self-install, and not suited for the average subscriber. The instructions from the OP just assumes you have some flavor of Uverse already and the original installer fed the RG with coax from the NID/NIB, which is a ridiculous assumption to make on AT&T's part.