Telephone Wiring up 8 Wires to 4 wires. Help Please

[Valtros]

Hello,

First of all thank you if you can help me

I am trying to wire up my telephone line to an extender. The extender is a male 4 wires (Green, White, Blue, Red. No stripes on any wires.) and the end of it is female but the end (female) is all fine.

Now the telephone wire i have on my wall after i stripped the wire away it has 8 wires inside not 4 like before. The 8 colors are: Brown, Yellow, Orange, Black, Green, White, Blue, Red also no stripes on any of these wires.

So my question is can you please tell me what colors connect to what colors? I have been trying for ages and i looked for youtube videos to help but no luck.

I basically just want to join the 2 cords together so its longer for use.

Thank you for your help

 

[lee2009]

picture would help, you only normaly need 2 wires, have you got broadband conected too?

 

[Valtros]

Yes i have broadband connected but that is in a different socket in another room and its working fine.

Here are the 2 pictures you requested.

1st pic (8 wires): http://oi48.tinypic.com/2j1o3uo.jpg

2nd pic (4 wires): http://oi50.tinypic.com/10fufc5.jpg

 

[lee2009]

try blue and orange on the main wiring, you may have to trace that wire back to the bt box etc to find the correct wires if the blue and orange dont give you a dial tone

 

[Valtros]

Hey thanks lee i tried it but the device im using says line in use?? We have had a telephone connected to this before working. So i dunno whats wrong. Thanks for you help i hope we can work out what is wrong.

 

[AssociatedAlarms]

Try using a multi meter and finding 47 - 50 VDC

PS what's the problem with the skirting boards? The uneven floor and the JD Sports trainers??

 

[bernardgreen]

The eight core looks to be alarm cable and is therefor not the best to use for telephone wiring. Telephone wiring should be in twisted pair cable to minimise the pick up of interference from other wiring.

The active pair could be any two of the eight wires. That 8 core is part of a bodged job. Best to replace it and the flat flexible with a single run of the correct cable which is CW 1308.