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Old February 19, 2010, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Lamb View Post
Well after opening the GE panel, the brass cable is just getting grounded in there.

Also, I looked very carefully while at it, and it seems that the black cable connected to the bakelite is connected to nothing else. (well I may be wrong, my brother is trying to find a plug...so there may be one) The blue wire seems to be the 60V ( @ 54V from a fluke...) and the white the ground, so I'm guessing the black cable is only for power (unless I'm wrong) so there may not be any Bell signal into the house...

so if the blue have 60 volts the phone line is activated, you need to plug your modem there, run a wire from there to a phone jack , and plug the modem in the phone jack
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