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Ain't that the truth!

The last time I ran into that violet/white cross connect, I was doing some wiring for a friend that was getting DSL installed in his shop. It was a disaster of old abandoned telephone wiring that I promptly ripped out. Nothing historic just miles of quad wire and silver satin used as station wire. Yuck. Anyway, the place has three drops, two single pair rubberized drops, and a 6 or so pair drop going into a metal hinged cover terminal (Western Electric, no less.) Some tech had used the x-conn wire to jump from the old style protectors on the two rubberized drops to an indoor plastic 6 pair NID. The 6 pair drop goes into and out of the metal terminal and into the ground to an adjacent building. The other building must have had a newer drop installed at some point, because when the Fairpoint tech showed up, he completely ignored the single pair drops and pulled the 6 pair drop out of the terminal and into a new 6 pair indoor NID, and my friend's DSL comes out of that.

Thank you Carl

Ed hooked me on using color-coded backboards and color specific cross-connect wiring. I guess I'll be holding onto these for a while.

R/BL R/OR for Partner ACS system telephones.
R/YL for Merlin Magix 4400 series telephones.
BL/YL for analog devices and POTS lines.

I think I have some other color combination for the DSL cross-connect.

Paul, that's a nice little hoard you have there.

I like to think of it as "squirreling some away".

Still, if you have a specific length of 2-pair CAT3 needed, let me know and I'll see of I have any loose hanks long enough to cover.

Well, to do what I want to do is 11 pieces for that last module, and the other CO lines to the other modules, it looks like about 9 pieces of about 10 feet. 8 station ports and 11 CO ports. The ones for the CO ports could be a bit shorter, 6-7 feet, the 8 for the station ports need to be 10 feet to be safe, I think. This will be especially helpful if I decide to get cables run to my collection of old phones. I'll need that last module for sure. Honestly, an 012E module would be more useful since I don't need 15 CO lines. But... I don't really need all those station ports either, and if I ever reconnect all the VoIP gateways for the C*NET, those CO ports might be useful. It's always in a state of flux. For now, I'd like to just get the module cabled the way it sits so I can just work off the blocks as I need to.

Wow, I just reread that post and that was confusing. Tally was about 20 pieces altogether, roughly around 10 feet per piece.

200'...I'm sure that the hanks don't add up to that much, but, I'll see what I have.

Chris 200' gray 2 pair pvc?