tschmidt
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| reply to Poincare
said by Poincare  : Two rooms have line 1 and line 2, but only one cable, with red & green wires for line 1 and black & yellow wires for line 2. Correct - your have what is called Quad-four cable. It consists of four conductors, but they are not twisted into pairs.
Green/Red is Line 1
Black/Yellow Line 2
New construction uses twisted pair cable like that used for Ethernet to improve transmission when multiple phone lines or DSL is used.
All you need to do is disconnect all four wires and swap them. That way jacks that used to be on line 1 are now on line 2 and vice versa.
If you are feeling adventurous you might want to think about installing a while house POTS/DSL splitter near the NID. Splitter does a better job of isolating DSL from voice and eliminates need to have a filter on each non-DSL device. This is especially important if you have a lot of voice devices or your DSL circuit is long.
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