Leviton 47689-B 1x9 Bridged Telephone Module (with bracket), White

Probably not too many people need these anymore, but I still have a landline and I used this to change the originally crappy wiring job the previous home owners did. Definitely works well.

I got this to replace an old four-screw block in my basement that all the phone cabling in my house was screwed into. All the phone cabling in my house was old and I was looking to replace it (the block that is currently there was very old and not all of the phone cabling was securely screwed into it, plus I was looking to upgrade this cabling where I actually want to use it to modern Cat cables). This was easier than a "regular" 66 or 110 punchdown panel considering I was just doing my own house and didn't have any crazy needs. How this product works is that all the "rows" are connected/bridged, so any can be used as your "in" row, and any/all of the others can be used to connect your actual line(s). This product has punchdowns for all eight wires in a 4-pair cable (so supports up to 4 lines), though most phone cabling won't use more than 3 pairs (and my house only has 2 coming in, though I used Cat 5e cable and connected all 4 pairs on the panel and just left the extra two wires in my RJ12 jack folded back and unused--but there should I ever end up needing them). I do not have the Leviton enclosure that this product was designed to fit into, but my version did say "with bracket" and I was able to mount it on my wall after removing the built-in rubber pieces in the back piece that are probably intended to fit it into that enclosure. I only have one other cable (besides the one in from outside) connected and it's worked well for me--actually more reliable than the screw-in block this replaced, where I think the connections were getting loose. But I could add up to nine total other jacks throughout my house if I wanted. My wiring coming in from outside was the old "quad wire" colors--red, green, black, and yellow--but I was able to match them up to the correct colors on this Cat-colored punchdown block with the help of my favorite search engine (usually white+blue = green, blue = red, white+orange = black, and orange=yellow). Besides that, this was pretty easy to use by following the provided instructions and the labeling on the modern cabling I used inside my house, and again, it was much easier than a "real" punchdown block.

My phone wiring was a jumbled mess. I ordered this to make the chaos go away. I didn't use the plastic punch down tool that came with the module, instead used a pro quality punch down tool. Shipping was right on time, and product quality was good. It works as advertised and is a big step up in wire management from the wierd cheapness that phone companies and home builders resort to. If your building a new home insist that your builder run all phone, internet and coax into a distribution center, LABEL THE FREAKING WIRES and provide some indication of where the labeled wires go in the house.

Thinking I'm "smarter than the average guy", I decided to do my own phone wiring. This module fits into the Levitron media cabinet easily and all the connections I've made to it worked "the first time". Any phone problems (via the cable company) have always been something other than because of this module. My only problem is that there is only one empty slot and I'm worried about moving the cable company's eMTA to the media box. FWIW, all the wireless phone systems available now kind of obsolete this system. Except for the fact that I have to extend my phone from the "house" to the "bar" over ~200ft of buried phone cable. All of these different types of cables (cat5, cat6 ...) are a pain. (think about extending HDMI over cat6) You never have enough cables going where you want them too. While wireless networks are great, they have their limitations.

I bought two of these to clean up the mess of a phone system that I had. Three phone lines into an old style block were a mess to say the least. This has a capacity for four lines and it works like a champ and is super easy to use. I removed the plastic clips that are designed to hold it into the Leviton box and just screwed it directly to the joist and it sits square and solid. It even comes with a plastic punch down tool. I would not hesitate to buy again.

It's not clear from the weak description but this board is set about 30cm high from the surface and the base gives it full perimeter support. It also can be removed and mounted lower if you do something to insulate the back side. Note that if you are competent to wire a punch down block you do NOT need to get a board with RJxx sockets on it. You can also isolate sets of punch down strips on this board with a simple slash of a knife across traces. It has two push mounting pins on the base.

While this is made for a structured wiring panel, I've been using this without it. I remove the two push pins and use screws to mount the unit to where it is needed. I use this for my customers, my friends and family too. It is good for 4 incoming phone lines and can be daisy chained to add more phone extensions. It can also be used to connect the power wires to wired smoked detectors to an alarm panel, for example.

Product worked well for rewiring the phone/internet in my house. Included a simple punch down tool, and made the central hookup simple. I used CAT5e wire, and it eliminated all the crackling on my phone lines, plus I got a little more speed on my ADLS2 internet line. I did not mount it in a box, just screwed it to a wall . Made it all very neat.

Sadly ended up not using but not because it's not suitable. I just felt that for for 4 x 2 pair cables I wanted to connect it was overkill. So used a smaller type of connector instead. As a product it's a fabulous bit of kit and the guys in US came back straight away to me when I had some queries.

Worked very well to distribute voice circuits to various areas of the house using my phone modem are as the demark point.

I used this to connect a CAT5E cable to distribute 4 telephone lines. Nice that a punch down tool is provided. Made for a quick installation to connect the 4 phones lines to the ethernet cable carrying the telephone lines.

Easy to use punch panel to replace older bix for analog phones.

Just what I needed.