Question about my home wiring

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 23, 2004 Posts: 2

I have 2 wires coming into the house from the outside box. They connect to a terminal block near by electrical box. One is phone wire, the other is the ground wire. Looks like the ground wire connects to the block, then another wire runs to one of my cold water pipes. Should I just leave the ground wires intact? Or disconnect?

Posts: 59 · Full Forum Member Joined: Dec 16, 2004 Posts: 59

If the outside box you are talking about is your network interface unit, then that is where you want to disconnect. Read this: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 23, 2004 Posts: 2

I read that page. I plan on disconnecting from the outside network interface unit. The question is , should I leave the ground wire in place? It's also fed into the house and connected to a cold water pipe. Is it necesary to ground the internal wiring, if it'll only be used for my Vonage "network"?

Posts: 176 · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:42 am Post subject:

I can't see why another ground would harm anything. I removed my wiring totally and ran to a new location, but my cable is already grounded.