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Telephone Extension Wire
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Can anyone help?
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!!
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!!
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I think this has been posted 2 places.... I'm sure it's been answered elsewhere.
But, you only need two of the wires, if you strip back the outer insulation you should see that the inner wires are twisted together in pairs, just use one pair.
If they are not twisted together then the cable will not be suitable for voice really, and definitely not if you want to run ADSL along it.
But, you only need two of the wires, if you strip back the outer insulation you should see that the inner wires are twisted together in pairs, just use one pair.
If they are not twisted together then the cable will not be suitable for voice really, and definitely not if you want to run ADSL along it.