Q: I wanted to add another telephone jack in my house, so I called the telephone company to set it up. The price they quoted was too much. I only want to install a jack on the opposite side of the ...

I cancelled my home phone line. Our house has phone jacks everywhere, but not many ethernet jacks. Can the phone wiring be repurposed for home networking rather than telephony? The house was built in ...

I've recently got a new computer, and now I need to have a phone jack next to it. There's a phone jack right where I want it, but it doesn't work. I got a new phone jack from radio shack just in case, ...

While watching a video about old radios from the 1920s, a phone jack popped up. The host mentioned that phone jacks are super old and he wondered what was their origin. I always assumed they had ...

Perhaps you answered this before and I missed it. Why does the telephone installer always place the bedroom telephone jack in the area where the center of the bed headboard will be? If one gets a new ...

The answers to questions from tenants and landlords are provided by Robert Griswold, a property manager certified by the Institute of Real Estate Management and author of "Property Management for ...