I had to remove a telephone connector box and now can't get my phone to work. The Internet works fine. I have three cables. All with six wires. One comes in from the main line, one from our phone socket and a second one from a secondary socket not in use. I've connected all the corresponding colours from each cable and this makes the Internet work but the phone is dead. Is this correct? Any help would be much appreciated!
Phone lines are typically colored Blue, Orange, Green, Brown and Slate. These correspond to line number 1,2,3,4 & 5. The twisted pair white/blue, white is the “tip” and the “blue is called the “ring” to make line 1. The tip carries the current to make the phone work and the ring carries the return of that current back to the phone company ground.
Anyway, usually you phone will be on the 1st pair. Blue White. these two wires need to be tied to the red and green wire in the phone jack. the red/green pair is line 1 and line 2 is usually yellow/black.
You need to provide more detail about what your dealing with to be able to accurately get an answer.
Open the master socket and copy the wiring on the extention sockets
Have a look here:
http://www.wppltd.demon.co.uk/WPP/Wiring/UK_telephone/uk_telephone.html
pin 2 – Blue (with white)
pin 3 – Orange (with white)
pin 4 – White (with orange)
ping 5 – White (with blue)
The Blue ones are the only ones from outide world.
The orange one (3) is the ring wire, generated by
- the master socket AND
- the ADSL FIlter
In fact it is recomended to disconnect the (3) orange ring wire, to make the ADSL work better (less interference). The Phones work because the many today don’t need the wire (like phones outside the UK) and the ADSL filter always regenerates it.