I have a phone line with 8 wires that is wired to the house, how do you select which wire to use on a 4 wire phone line?
Phone line will pick up noise easily with compare to Ethernet cable, the cable has shield to reduce the interference. There is a reason why Ethernet cable is using instead of phone line. Terminal block will be fine for your in house Ethernet, there is no switch required.
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Eight wires is usually CAT-5 for Ethernet (computer networking). It can be used for phone lines (I used it for phone lines when I put an addition on my house) A phone line uses two wires. If you look at a phone jack the middle two wires are line #1. If you have second line, the wires will be on each side of those two wires (surrounding it). If you have a third line it will be on either side of line 2. So a three line phone hack will have 321123 but if you only use line 1 you will only be using those two 1's in the middle. Color-wise: White with a little blue goes to solid green Blue with a little white goes to solid red White with a little orange goes to solid black Orange with a little while goes to solid yellow
