A year ago when my Telkom landline was installed the only point installed was upstairs in the main bedroom. The primary cordless phone was connected to this point and placed at the side of the bed on a pedestal. So this was fine until recently when I had ADSL enabled on the line. Now I have the Telkom D-Link DSL-2750U router and the cordless phone connected and it is kind of messy with the cables. Also not sure how healthy it is to have this router next to your head. LOL. My aim is to have an additional point installed in the upstairs lounge area so I could move all of this hardware there. Do I need to go to Telkom and pay the R520 once off fee for the installation of an additional point or can I go into the ceiling and split the line, install some trunking down the corner of the wall and place the line into that? If so, any idea on the difficulty/complexity of doing this?
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acidrain
Executive Member
Split the line yourself. Will probably work out cheaper. All splitters/joiners/cables etc can be bought at most computer stores so very easy peasy. Even to crimp your own telephone cable is pretty straight forward.
Just join to the orange and blue wires. Seems like they are held in place by a tension spring for contact which can be released with those little orange tabs. I would twist and solder the new wires to the existing ones and put them back where they came from.
rebel998
Expert Member
You'll have to get a POTS filter for the additional phones.
I opened up the Telkom point and removed the Blue and Orange cables, then removed the Telkom point.
Went up into the ceiling, pulled out the black shielded cable out of the conduit running down in the wall to point in the main bedroom.
Then connected up the Telkom box to the black shielded cable in the ceiling using the same Blue and Orange cables removed earlier.
Found another spare empty conduit running to a spare blanked off wall plug point in the spare lounge.
Bought 5m Ellies venus male to male extension lead plugged one end into the Telkom box which is now in the ceiling and other end down the conduit.
Cut a hole on the blank off plate in the lounge and pulled out the RJ11 and plugged it into the D-Link IN port on the power adapter.
Connected up the filter etc and telephone.
Tested and all works fine.
@Rickster pic was taken at night and with lampshade light switched on at the pedestal next to the Telkom point. Pics on the iPhone 5s are not all that bad compared to the BlackBerry 9900 I had upgraded from. lol
Went up into the ceiling, pulled out the black shielded cable out of the conduit running down in the wall to point in the main bedroom.
Then connected up the Telkom box to the black shielded cable in the ceiling using the same Blue and Orange cables removed earlier.
Found another spare empty conduit running to a spare blanked off wall plug point in the spare lounge.
Bought 5m Ellies venus male to male extension lead plugged one end into the Telkom box which is now in the ceiling and other end down the conduit.
Cut a hole on the blank off plate in the lounge and pulled out the RJ11 and plugged it into the D-Link IN port on the power adapter.
Connected up the filter etc and telephone.
Tested and all works fine.
@Rickster pic was taken at night and with lampshade light switched on at the pedestal next to the Telkom point. Pics on the iPhone 5s are not all that bad compared to the BlackBerry 9900 I had upgraded from. lol