David_Dickson

Ok, a house I am doing up has a phone line installed, but its just a bit of wire sticking out the wall.
I bought a standard phone socket and it gives the wiring colours in the instructions, but the wire colours on the existing wire are different.

the standard wiring according to the socket instructions is

terminal colour
1 green/white
2 blue/white
3 orange/white
4 white/orange
5 white/blue
6 white/green

The wires coming into the house are solid colours - orange, white, black and green. It looks like only orange and white were used in the past. I tried the obvious orange to terminal 3 and white to terminal 4 but it didnt work. The line has been connected by BT and has a number assigned.

I will be running a second socket from this one which will be for a broadband computer. I have run the wire, and obviously know how to connect it as its coloured properly. I just need to know where the old-style colours connect to.
Thanks.

2000TLondon

http://www.wppltd.demon.co.uk/WPP/Wi...telephone.html

There are a few sites like this with info around mate......


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...g+phone+socket