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A quick overview to explain how everything is connected together... the ports on the far left are for the ethernet ports throughout the house, to the right of those are all the phone jacks. The bottom jack on the phone column is the line I used to tap into the land line carrying the dsl signal. From there I attached a filter, which then has a purple telephone line going to the DSL modem. There is a patch cable running from the DSL modem to the Vonage VoIP router (which has 3 ethernet jacks also). So from the router, I have a phone wire going to the 66-block punch panel, and an ethernet cable running to make the office network jack active... which is currently the only ethernet jack I have terminated at all.

From the 66-block I have wires going to activate certain telephone jacks throughout the house.

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I still have to terminate the coax cable, but not in a big hurry because we don't have any TV service yet.
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internet left, telephone right. bottom telephone is DSL input, the telephone jacks with cables connected are the ports that are activated. I still have to terminate the rest of the ethernet ports.
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The 66-block was the big question mark for me... didn't really know how to wire it, so I googled a bunch for some instructions and got a basic idea, then just winged the rest. The bottom wires on the 66-block act as jumpers to connect everything to eachother. The blue wires are the mainline, but I figured while I was at it, I'd make it easier to have a second line by adding the orange jumper wire. The metal jumpers (m-clips) are necessary so the top two pegs are connected to the bottom two pegs. in each column of pegs, the top two are all one piece of metal... as are the bottom two. make sense? The wire connected on the far top-left is the input from the Vonage Router, and the rest go to the telephone ports above to activate them.
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I plan on eventually terminating everything in the box before I put the front panel back on, so I can post some more pics as I make progress.

If there are any questions, just ask and I can try to clarify.

I just need to get one thing straight Justin: on the block, it's just the telephone lines that are terminated, right? This is the first time I've ever seen a residential cable closet. It looks pretty clean. About your twisted pair cabling in the closet, is that cable just looped around in there or do you have connected to anything in the closet? I'm glad you posted this, because I think it needs to be posted; also, I think it would be great if you were able to share this info step-by-step for those who might want to install this in their home. It makes for great wire organization. I'm pretty sure these cables all go to wall jacks, right? Not quite used to wall jacks, more used to cable being sprawled about, lol. Thanks in advance for the info

Yes, only wire used for telephone is terminated on the 66-block (the wire is actually cat-5e because I used that for everything).

The rest of the twisted pair in the closet is just looped around there waiting for me to terminate it. when I'm done, it will look much like the telephone jacks next to it where there is no big loop of wire.

And yes these wires all go to wall jacks.

When I get time, I'd be happy to post a little tutorial about what I've done... but it won't be done in the immediate future. If you, or anyone, know of someone who is wanting to do this soon, just let me know and I can put a little higher priority on a tutorial... or give some tips before the tutorial is ready.

Glad you found it useful!

people get intimidated by telephone wiring blocks the fact is they are extremly easy to wire you just have to remember a couple of basic principles.

1. telephone is over 2 wires (one on each connection )
2. Make sure that the wiring block is in a low moisture area (they corrode quickly in high humidiy areas)


then just get a cheap punchdown tool

oh yeah you don't have to worry about getting phone wiring. Cat5 works just fine and you can run 4 lines offa one wire (8 pair = 4 lines)