Telephone Extension Cable/Wire

[buffymad]

Can anyone help? Have also posted this on "how it works", just in case!!

Have bought a new cable and new socket for our phone. Master socket is upstairs and cable is to run down the stairs and into living room (and into new socket).

Husband has just looked at the cable which says it has red, green, blue and white wires. On looking at our current cable (which is very very old by the way), it has red, blue, green and brown wires!

So the question is - does the white wire replace the brown wire? Or have we bought something that's not what we need?

Don't want to connect the wrong things in case something bad happens!!

Help!!

[jomifl]

The colour of the wires is irrelevant. normally only 2 wires are required anyway, just make a note of which colour wire is connected to which number connector on the master and connect to the slave using the same colour /number combination. You may have to replace you original socket with a proper master socket as adding a slave to an old stand alone socket may give ring problems. This may not be the definitive answer but at least you can keep your wire.

[Vagrant]

http://www.wppltd.dem...one/uk_telephone.html

[AlBags]

2, 3, 5.
3 is the bell (ring) connection. You do not need this on most modern tone dial phones, but connect it if you are wiring an extension where ring may be needed.

[joshuareil]

Color coding on the socket and on the wire does not matter as long as the wiring are parallel on the other socket.