Moved telephone socket

[Coogie]

When i moved my phone socket recently, there were only two wires (orange & white) connected to the rear portion of the socket (A&B).

I reconnented this way, and everything seems to work fine - is there likely to be a problem?

 

[Lectrician]

If your terminals where just A+B, then indicates a master NTE5a socket.

I assume as you mention no other wiring, that this is the only socket.

This is actually the BT owned socket, and the cable feeding this should not really be touched. I guess a blind eye can be turned, and hopefully you used CW1308 cable, which is identifiable by the colours Blue with white stripes, and White with blue stripes etc. These are 'twisted pairs', balanced to minimise interference.

The cable from the telephone exchange to your property is a single pair (so cores), and this terminates directly to A+B, which correspond to the 5+2 terminals respectively. Polarity here is not too important.

It is any extension wiring to secondary sockets where extra cores are required.




So, in answer to your question.....No.

 

[breezer]

When i moved my phone socket recently, there were only two wires (orange & white) connected to the rear portion of the socket (A&B).

I reconnented this way, and everything seems to work fine - is there likely to be a problem?

no