Running Two Routers On One Line

Hi. I have one physical phone line and two jacks. What I am trying to do is run two wireless routers off one line. My nephew that works for Telecommunications said it can't be done, and I think he's right. I am really bad when it comes to networking so just looking for clarification here. Thanks.  

yeah thats not really possible. but what you can do is get some Ethernet cable,and run it to your unused phone jack to the used one where your router is, and add another wireless "node" to your network to add another router after the first...i think. 

EDIT

heres how you can do it. you would pull Ethernet cable from the one outlet to the other, then plug the Ethernet to your router, then on the other side plug in a Wireless Access Point.

so the network would be 

phone-router-Ethernet-WAP

 

 

You're getting your networking components confused. Yes you can use multiple routers on one network, whether this be for segregation purposes or what not.

However, by the way you are on about plugging into phone lines I presume you're actually referring to ADSL modems. In which case no.
  You can run two modems on one phone line but this requires that you have two providers with separate connection credentials.

If you want two wireless access points, you would need to connect the router to the other. On the slave router (the one that isn't acting as the gateway) you would need to turn of certain network services (like DHCP) (unless you want segregation) and forward the services from the primary router. 

Dont most modern routers have the ability to bridge a connection, with relative ease?

You can't run 2 modems on a single line unless you're using DSL and dial up with a filter.
As for running 2 DSL connections on a single line, no. This cannot be done.

It kindof seems hit or miss with some modern routers. openwrt or ddwrt can do this easily, so compatible routers can gain new features.

Thanks, this about sums up my situation.

In any case, I have a wireless repeater I can use anyway...

@MDOGG

Just google WAN bypass mode