wiring a phone socket

[browfish]

Not sure if this should come under the electricals forum but not sure where else.

Anyyway, i accidently pulled the phone cable out of its socket last night and wondered if anyone could help with telling me how it should be rewired. It is the main cable that comes into the house and has numerouse wires. It is an old house so may have different colours to what is used today. Anyway, taking the box off the wall there appears to be 3 terminals to fix wires. Not sure how this works as there are 6 terminals for the socket that you plug into. Can anyone help me.

thanks
james

 

[Pensdown]

Hope this helps

http://www.wppltd.demon.co.uk/WPP/Wiring/UK_telephone/uk_telephone.html

 

[plugwash]

what color are the wires in the incoming cable?

 

[browfish]

thanks for that
I found that exact same link
It just sounds too simple to be right. I just have to connect the orange and white wires! What are all the others for then?

 

[jwilliams]

It just sounds too simple to be right. I just have to connect the orange and white wires! What are all the others for then?

Adding additional lines later. Any decent BT engineer will leave plenty of length on the spare pairs to save running another cable later.

 

[simon_d]

if its the main line in you only need 2 cores. ususally both of the same colour. connect these to A and B or 1 and 2 (if only marked 1 or 2), or 2 and 5. doesnt really matter which way round. hopefully by damage to the end cores youll be able to tell which pair have been ripped from the terminals

 

[securespark]

Polarity can be important on some broadband modems. Try getting in touch with AX if you want a telephone socket tester to show polarity.

 

[simon_d]

Polarity can be important on some broadband modems. Try getting in touch with AX if you want a telephone socket tester to show polarity.

i know some modems and some phones are fussy, but we currently have 3 lines in my house. 2 are wired 1 way and the 3rd is different. and most jobs (sometimes test just outta curiosity for how its wired) all seem around 50/50. this is from both BT and telewest. and ive only ever had 1 person complain there modem wasnt workin. new modem later and no problem

and whos this AX? might have to get one, beats usin a multimeter