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This telephone hub was a little overkill for what I really needed but I wanted to future proof this as much as possible. My old hub was outside and kept getting damaged when performing lawn maintenance and the lines would get noisy every time it rained so, I mounted this hub in a cabinet inside the house and ran the wires into the house from the crawlspace. By the way get a 110 impact punchdown tool, it makes the job so much easier and you'll have less chance of damage.Initially I had some trouble but I found that it was because of the way old wiring (40+ years) was connected and it's condition. Because of this, I replaced all the old wiring with new 5e wire and all is well, nice quiet lines and no more chance of damage.I contacted the Circuit Direct (the seller) through Amazon email and they replied almost immediately and gave me ideas how to work out the problems I was having. They have awesome customer service.The only criticism I would have is the manual could use some work.

I switched my mom over to VOIP service and this telephone hub was just the item needed to use as a distribution block. No structured media cabinet is necessary to use this, just remove the black push pins (use vise grips to rip out the pin portion from the top and then flip over and squeeze out the remaining 'leg' portion) and then fasten with regular wood screws.I picked this over the comparable Leviton offering (Leviton 47689-B 1x9 Bridged Telephone Module with Bracket) as it was both cheaper and its enclosure is much more durable. The Leviton just uses a plastic bracket; the Steren hub has a full metal enclosure on all sides.As others have mentioned, this hub is not meant for older telephone wiring that has a thicker gauge. Use category 3 cable and above and you won't have any problems using a punch-down tool to wire this hub up. I made do with a small plastic one that came bundled with a keystone jack from long ago and it worked out fine.

Installed this as a wall-mounted module in the wiring closet of a customer's new home. Seems to work fine, no issues mounting after replacing the plastic pinch-pins with screws. Oddly enough, the ISP provider in that area (DSL, unfortunately) didn't use the filter module for their modem, instead pulling off the first pair and snap-crimping the wires. After calling them on that raising some hell, they came back and punched it down correctly......except they got the pairs backward.I ended up having to re-punch the whole thing on the second line because their installer literally destroyed the first-line 110 punch-down connectors. It looks like he used a screwdriver to punch it down...None of that is the fault of the unit, though, so why four and not five? Simple: documentation. What there is of it assumes you are a teleco installer (I happen to be an IT technician, but one who has experience with phone lines and teleco work) and most of it is simply specs for other products they offer. Nice, but not what you should be filling the already-painfully-sparse installation guide with. Still, I would use this unit again if the need arose.

My house was built in 1980, and had the typical cob-web-like mess of old phone lines run to screw terminals. This was pretty much fine for phone calls, but a noise and signal loss issue for DSL connections. After pulling the old hardware out, placing the box in location, and punching everything in place, the DSL connection was at top speed, and the other lines in the house were noise free.If you are considering purchase, please note that you should have a basic 110 blade punch-down tool. This is the only proper way to connect the solid conductor wiring in your phone system to the terminals in a block like this. With the tool, the connections are a piece of cake, and will likely be perfect on the first shot.The box is very good quality, the punch-down terminals are solidly constructed, and the backplane has a good rugged mounting. I would very much consider buying additional Steren hardware in the future, should the need arise!

Pretty solid product. Used it to clean up a mess of 9 phone extensions in my house - a mess left from successive Verizon and spectrum cable installers. Pulled them inside and got it all neatened up. Since I am never going to have 2, let alone 4, telco phone lines, I just jumped the first two pairs to the second two pairs and made a 12 line block from this 6 line block. Works well from what I have experienced this far.

I needed to organize the phone wiring in my house. This did the trick. Heavy metal housing and good fit and finish.

Purchased this and the push-in tool. Try as would (and I tried A LOT), I couldn't get this to reliably connect phone lines together. The teeth just didn't penetrate the wire insulation as promised. Ended up putting RJ-11 ends on the phone lines and plugging them into a multiplex (URBEST Beige RJ11 6P4C Male Plug to 5 Ports 6P4C Female Socket Phone Line Splitter Adapter). Clean neat and easy to work with. And a far cheaper option.