User Manual

Proprietary and Confidential
27
Installing the SOMAport 140
Connecting telephone equipment to in-building telephone wiring
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Connect additional telephones, fax machines, answering machines, and dial-
up modems in other rooms to Line 2 (and, therefore, the SOMAport 140).
The wall phone jacks to which you connect the SOMAport 140 and the
telephone devices it will run must:
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Be wired properly
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Be fitted with a special adapter called a two-line splitter that allows you to
connect to both Line 1 and Line 2 (standard wall phone jacks allow you to
connect to Line 1 only)
If you only have one phone line, see page 29 for information about connecting
the SOMAport 140 to Line 1. If you have two or more phone lines, continue
reading the following sections and then follow the steps for connecting to
Line 2 on page 30.
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To determine if wall phone jacks are properly wired
Check each wall jack into which you will be plugging either the SOMAport 140
or a telephone device to see if it is properly wired. Your building may have the
necessary wiring, but the wires must also be correctly connected in each wall
phone jack.
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If there is an RJ-11 telephone cable plugged into the telephone wall phone jack,
disconnect it.