I plan on installing a new telephone demarcation box on the inside wall of my garage near where 2 pairs of wires come out of a conduit. The existing demarc box is old, ugly, and accessible from the outside where it could easily be opened and the wires cut. I'm thinking in terms of greater home security and better DSL performance.
While I can isolate the house wiring from the live wires via unplugging an RJ11 disconnect, I will have to first move the live telephone pair from the old demarc to the new demarc. Is it enough to carefully use a pair of insulated pliers to move and connect a wire over without causing all sorts of havoc at the central office? Many years ago I performed a similar procedure by moving a jack. When I was through the telephone immediately rang. When I answered it was Bell Telephone saying they detected a fault on my line because an indicator "popped up". I'm thinking I may have accidentally shorted the wires. I told the woman on the phone that everything on my end was normal (this was back in the days when the phone company owned everything, including the telephone and jacks).
The only other and perhaps safer way to do this is to first connect a new pair of telephone copper wire to the new demarc and then crimp and join the wire to the live pair coming out of the conduit. Is that how the pros do it? The only thing with this is that I'd need to find the correct crimp connectors. I think the telephone company uses the kind where you insert both wires unstripped and then squeeze down to cut the insulation and make the connection. I'm trying to avoid using crimp connectors though and would prefer to connect directly to the new demarc terminals. With each crimp connector comes the risk of an imperfect electrical contact with degraded voice and DSL performance.