Which RJ11 wires to cut?

Yamahahahahaha · 22 Oct 2009 at 16:05

Hello!

As everyone on this forum is well aware (I hope) the ring-wire trick offers significant boosts to the speed of ADSL connections.

The RJ11 jack has 6 slots, and 4 gold pins.

Looking at the jack with the gold pins facing you, plastic clip facing away, and the wire pointing down / towards you; Going from left to right on the pins # 1 2 3 4.
Which ones would you cut to achieve the effect of cutting the ring wire?

derkaderka · 22 Oct 2009 at 19:24

Why not just go to your master socket and disconnect the ring wire there ?
That way IF you want to put it back on its pretty simple (with a krone tool)

Yamahahahahaha · 23 Oct 2009 at 00:11

Because this ADSL line is part of a 200 line trunk coming in from the street. There is no master socket.

The 'DSL' line is directly terminated in a 4-pin RJ11.

john_s · 23 Oct 2009 at 08:55

Without a master socket, will there be a ring wire? If it's straight from the street, will it not just be a pair? AFAIK, the ring wire is only connected at the master socket.

Yamahahahahaha · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:51

Well there are 2 pairs going into the RJ11 going into the router. So presumably one of these pairs are redundant.

The ring wire is supplied from the exchange, it provides a voltage to the ringer in older style telephone bells.

Sin_Chase · 23 Oct 2009 at 13:00

RJ11 going into the router is just a cable.

You need to be looking behind your wall socket which I am assuming you are.

What colours are your cables? Are you sure this socket is not a master socket itself? Does it have a capacitor on it? Does it have an integrated DSL filter?

On a BT style socket Pin 3 is the ring wire. Pins 2 and 5 are for the phone line. The fact you are saying you have 2 pairs is bizzare. If it is 2 balanced pairs, just leave them. The concept of removing the ring wire is that it throws off the balanced pair, if its 2 full balanced pairs you probably have nothing to gain.

What stats is your router chucking out, CRC errors f.ex?