Hello all,
I will try and explain this a well as I can. I have just moved to a house that seems to have a dead second master socket in the 2nd bedroom that is wired around the outside of the house from the master socket in the lounge downstairs. I have carfully opened both boxes to look at wiring.
Downstairs master is the BT master socket. Four wires going into box from the street, white, orange, green and black. White and orange go straight to BT side of master socket. Green and black are crimped/connected to orange and white cables that go to 2nd bedroom master socket where white and orange are connected to inside of master socket.
As of now, I have no working phone line in 2nd bedroom and computer is connected to internet thanks to a 10 meter cable running downstairs to the kitchen extension.
My questions are:
1. Is this box in the 2nd bedroom an old second phone line (a different number - say for a fax) previous owner had and is no longer used?
2. Could I change the 2nd bedroom box into a normal extension (plug orange and white wire into 2 & 5) and use the current wire around outside the house to create an extension to downstairs master, also using orange and white? As long as wires are the same at either end, it shouldn't make a difference, should it?
Simply put, I need a working phone box in my 2nd bedroom and there seem to be wires already in place that might work, instead of me having to run brand new wiring all around the house.
Sorry if this is long winded. Any ideas?
I will try and explain this a well as I can. I have just moved to a house that seems to have a dead second master socket in the 2nd bedroom that is wired around the outside of the house from the master socket in the lounge downstairs. I have carfully opened both boxes to look at wiring.
Downstairs master is the BT master socket. Four wires going into box from the street, white, orange, green and black. White and orange go straight to BT side of master socket. Green and black are crimped/connected to orange and white cables that go to 2nd bedroom master socket where white and orange are connected to inside of master socket.
As of now, I have no working phone line in 2nd bedroom and computer is connected to internet thanks to a 10 meter cable running downstairs to the kitchen extension.
My questions are:
1. Is this box in the 2nd bedroom an old second phone line (a different number - say for a fax) previous owner had and is no longer used?
2. Could I change the 2nd bedroom box into a normal extension (plug orange and white wire into 2 & 5) and use the current wire around outside the house to create an extension to downstairs master, also using orange and white? As long as wires are the same at either end, it shouldn't make a difference, should it?
Simply put, I need a working phone box in my 2nd bedroom and there seem to be wires already in place that might work, instead of me having to run brand new wiring all around the house.
Sorry if this is long winded. Any ideas?