BT Socket Help

[ChrisP55]

Hi, had some contractors that removed the BT socket and I am now left with these wires.

I could normally make sense of it and fix it, but these dont look like standard colours.

Please can someone offer some guidance (ex openreach engineer would be a bonus )

I want to get the line back in service along with the broadband if possible.

This is fed in to a portacabin and was operational prior to the sockets being removed.

Any assistance would be really appreciated.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

sockets being removed.

'Sockets' How many sockets?

If there was only one line, you could find the live pair, by checking between every wire and every other wire, with a multimeter on the 200v dc range, to check for 50v dc. The 50v -ish, will indicate a live pair you could use.

 

[ChrisP55]

ok, thank you.

 

[opps]

Over the years I have disconnected/reconnected a few domestic connections. I have never seen that many strands in one hit.

Ultimately, your broadband only uses two of those cables.

I have no idea which two though. Sorry.

 

[Sureitsoff?]

get openreach to sort it out and bill the contractors who f****d it up

 

[hllns]

Looks like a 20 pair cable, you sure you're not being distributed from another internal distribution point somewhere if this is a portakabin? Be an odd thing for Openreach to bring into a building like that.

 

[bernardgreen]

Looks like CW1128

Pair	1st Colour	2nd Colour
1	White	Blue
2	White	Orange
3	White	Green
4	White	Brown
5	White	Grey
6	Red	Blue
7	Red	Orange
8	Red	Green
9	Red	Brown
10	Red	Grey