Ozzy:

Here's a picture of a typical NID that's installed by the telephone company. Notice on this one, the left side (upper side in the picture) is a private compartment for the their protection and/or electronics. The right (lower side in the picture) is where the subscriber makes their terminations. This is usually installed in the vicinity of your electric service, and almost always outside:

[Linked Image from i98.photobucket.com]

It's hard to tell in the picture, but the wires that feed the test jacks have absolutely NO twist at all, so feeding these into CAT5e serves absolutely no purpose. It's like using a 1/2" water line to feed a 4" one. You can't improve the signal quality by using tightly-twisted wires.

I didn't realize that you hadn't already run the cables, so you really should take the advice given by others and terminate your cable runs INDOORS on industry-standard blocks.

Ed Vaughn, MBSWWYPBX