How to repair a floor jack?

I want to add a phone jack on the second floor, how should I go about it?

• There is a phone jack on the ground floor kitchen wall and right above it on the second floor is where I wanted to add another. I was thinking of running a regular phone wire, that you can buy from dollar store, through the wall by fishing it from the second floor but I don't know how to make the connections. How would I make the connections on the ground floor kitchen jack and how would I make them on the second floor? Please advise it's a pain going downstairs to answer the phone every time ... even though it's a good exercise. Thank you.

• Answer:

  If you can run the wire all the way to the main telephone terminal it is best. Stay away from the dollar store (flat wire). Goto Home Depot or something and buy some cat5 wire and a telephone jack. Run the wire to the basement (or wherever the terminal is). Polarity doesnt matter. connect I pair of wires to main terminal. And same pair on otherside to Red/Green terminals on phone jack. The cat5 has 4 pairs of wires, we usually use the blue/white pair. if you truely cannot run the wire to the main terminal: ***************************************… Y not just buy a cordless phone? ***************************************… find the nearest active telephone jack (still stay away from using the flat wire) open that jack connect to red/green or blue/white (depending on what wire was used. Use same pair on new jack.