"Robert M. Hamer" <HAMER524@ruby.vcu.edu> (07/14/90)
First, I need to state that I am in Richmond, VA, which is C & P - land, which is part of Bell Atlantic Land. I suspect this differs from telco to telco. I recently got a second line installed. The house is thirty years old; we moved in a year ago. When we moved in, we had one line installed. When they installed it, they also put in a Network Interfact box, as previous service had been installed in 1960 before there were NI. In my previous house, the NI had a modular socket I could plug my modular plug into, to test the circut exclusive of the inside wiring. (This was also C&P land.) This NI doesn't. Anyone have any guesses why? It would be useful to be able to test the new line before I hook it up so if I screw up the hookup, I know what I have done. I will probably have to get an old phone, strip back the modular cord, and get some alligator clips.