Our place is set up so that we have more than one phone line. We have a phone in our office that we use, but we have phone outlets throughout the rest of the house that I want to hook a phone up to, but they are wired for another line, and I want to switch it so that I can have it on the same line as the one in our office. For example, when I hook a phone up to an outlet in another part of the house, there is no dial tone or anything. Anyone know how I can fix this??

I just finished running new wires all over my house (since there was only 1 working jack) -- I have all the old telco equipment and old wires that were 4 thick rubber sheathed (yupp, rubber dry rotting and everything) to beat that the guy before me to extend the phone wires would put the two together and tape them up using --- want to guess (yupp good ol' scotch tape)! Anyway, got the brilliant idea to get a Leviton, i believe it is called a security/phone module, this will allow you to go from demarcation to 7 phone locations and then plug in a security system if you have one. Alls good, colors dont match, and there are more connection points than wires that I have per distribution point, but figure out where each wire goes, and assume the extra hole doesnt matter as long as you keep consistent (stay to left or right at each point) then I went and bought a full spool (250') phone cable - which i must add came at a very good price, 6 wires - non-twisted, and ran them throughout the house. (awaiting my VOIP to arrive before I connect everything), then I fall upon DIY and a number of other locations and hear all this about CAT 5 is the way to go. [B]Here is where I am running into trouble[/B] I get Cat5, which I am mainly using for telephone. Do I need to get CAT 5 phone jacks at each location or do I use the regular phone jacks and just not use a pair of the cables? Will a standard telephone (2-pair) wire plug into the Cat 5 Phone Adapter? What is Cat5e? If I am going to go back and re-wire everything, should I go Cat 5e instead??? Isnt Cat5 what they use for ethernet cord? Sorry for sounding so dumb, but there is soooooo much going on here with telehone cord, I am truely lost. Thank you for all of your guys help, with this and in the past! Justin