BT socket re-wiring questions!

NarChaDBaueR

NarChaDBaueR

NarChaDBaueR

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Hey,

Just come home from uni to a house with broken internets, apparently a cat may of pee'd on the bt socket :-$ So i tried to take the splitter out of the wall socket but it wouldn't budge so i un screwed the front plate and could see that its blown or something?? Id that xan even happen.

Anywho i got a new master socket front plate, splitter and dsl cable but the wo
iring is new on the new front plate and all the diagrams online have different coloured wires. The colours of the cables i have are black, white, green and orange. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using these coloured cables with a master socket???

Cheers,

Jack
 
You cannot go by the colour.

You can do it with a multimeter. Find the 48V and 0V wires. These are the only 2 BT supply. The 3rd is the ring wire, which when shorted to ground, makes the phone ring.
 
Only 3, and sometimes you do not need the ring wire.

Good site disfunktion, I have used them a few weeks ago to rewire a phone line
 
Although theoretically that how it should work, the BT oneI just installed in my lasses office needed it! Otherwise it would not ring. I had to rewire the faceplate as it was wired up completely wrong!
 
You only need two wires connected, as long as you have a proper master socket (i.e. it contains a capacitor) then any modern phone will ring. Just connect the orange/white pair as that's the first pair of the cable and that's what the previous engineer should have used to connect your cable to the next node. If the orange white doesn't work then try the green/black pair. Also what kind of master socket do you have? Does it look like this? http://www.relay-rutlandtelecom.co.uk/images/NTE5/bt_master_socket_2.jpg As long as you connect the correct pair to the a/b leg terminals in the back of the nte you'll be fine, from your post above it sounds like you've connected a leg from each pair within the cable, connect the correct pair and you'll be fine :)
 
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Its not a bt branded one its a crabtree i got when i used to work for a wholesalers... It's got the capacitor aswell, so ima go try it again, im using a punch tool to stick the cables in, is that the best way of doing it?!
 
I think that the four wires that you have are the BT A and B wires (or drop cable). Try connecting the Orange and White wires to the A and B terminals on the master socket. Not the ones on the faceplate which are usually numbered one to six and will be punch down connections, the A and B terminals are ususally screw terminals and will be marked A & B.

It shouldnt make too much difference which wire goes to which, but if you want to be a pedant and have a multimeter 0v normally goes to A. I hope that this helps
 
SimonR said:
I think that the four wires that you have are the BT A and B wires (or drop cable). Try connecting the Orange and White wires to the A and B terminals on the master socket. Not the ones on the faceplate which are usually numbered one to six and will be punch down connections, the A and B terminals are ususally screw terminals and will be marked A & B.

It shouldnt make too much difference which wire goes to which, but if you want to be a pedant and have a multimeter 0v normally goes to A. I hope that this helps
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Only BT branded NTE5's tend to have a/b screw terminals, in my experience (as a bt engineer for the last 4 years) most third party NTE 5's have IDC (punch down) terminals on the back of the socket as well as the frontplate. If they're IDC terminals a punch down tool will do the job, you can get a decent krone tool from ebay pretty cheaply...
 
Yeah i have a swa kit for crimping and making cat5e cables. Bit random but you wouldnt know how much it would cost for an engineer to come and fix it would you? All my attempts have failed!!
 
NarChaDBaueR said:
Yeah i have a swa kit for crimping and making cat5e cables. Bit random but you wouldnt know how much it would cost for an engineer to come and fix it would you? All my attempts have failed!!
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Is the line even activated?

Also, connect the orange wire to "pin 2 or B" and white to "pin 5 or A".
 
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