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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Nickbat on 29 February 2012, 19:21:46
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I have been having many problems with my BT internet speed. I had an engineer round last week and he changed the ancient connection box where the line comes into the house. He told me that if I get further problems, I should change the extension line/socket. Needlees to say, the internet has become unbearably slow again, so today I bought a new cable and ADSL extension socket. I have connected the cable to the new BT socket thus:
2: Yellow
3: Green
4: Red
5: Black
...and the same with the new ADSL extension socket.
What have I got? Nothing. :(
I did get the web up at one point, but with the phone on the extension as dead as a dodo with no dial tone, I had another fiddle and now I have nothing. Where am I going wrong? ???
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Nickbat,
On the new extension sockets the incoming line (two wires) should be connected to terninals 2 and 5. So the two of the 4 wires will be the line. From memory you should get 60v dc across the 2 wires. All other wires are unneccesary, unless you have shared service etc.
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Nickbat,
On the new extension sockets the incoming line (two wires) should be connected to terninals 2 and 5. So the two of the 4 wires will be the line. From memory you should get 60v dc across the 2 wires. All other wires are unneccesary, unless you have shared service etc.
Correct :y
Just disconect the other 2 :y
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You using rather alarm cable? Thats gonna break things up.
Whether you can get away with just 2 wires depends on a lot of things. Happy to discuss at length...
TB ex-BT internal and overhead 'engineer' (in loose sense :P), and SFIO back in the 90s...
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Jaime, I bought a Broadband DIY Extension Kit from Homebase. "all you need to install an extension socket for your broadband & telephone connections up to 15m"
It still doesn't work even after disconnecting all but wires 2 & 5. :(
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I thought phone cable was supposed to be coloured orange and stripe and blue and stripe the same as cat5 nowadays?
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I thought phone cable was supposed to be coloured orange and stripe and blue and stripe the same as cat5 nowadays?
A broadband extension needs to be (I'd need to confirm) Cat3 or higher.
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The wiring code I've got for the old phone cable would suggest either it's the wrong way round or it's talking about the plug from the latch side.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12034245/ethernet%20plugs.jpg)
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Its being a while since i've done this but iirc, you may need terminal 3 conecting :-\
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Its being a while since i've done this but iirc, you may need terminal 3 conecting :-\
Terminal 3 is the bell wire, not really needed nowadays.
Jaime is right (obviously) in that twisted pair cable should be used and it's only pins 2 & 5 that need connecting.
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Its being a while since i've done this but iirc, you may need terminal 3 conecting :-\
Terminal 3 is the bell wire, not really needed nowadays.
Jaime is right (obviously) in that twisted pair cable should be used and it's only pins 2 & 5 that need connecting.
So you're saying that this cable sold at Homebase to wire an extension will never work? :o
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Its being a while since i've done this but iirc, you may need terminal 3 conecting :-\
Terminal 3 is the bell wire, not really needed nowadays.
Jaime is right (obviously) in that twisted pair cable should be used and it's only pins 2 & 5 that need connecting.
So you're saying that this cable sold at Homebase to wire an extension will never work? :o
Proper telephone cable is in a "twisted pair" configuration in order to reduce noise, interference, and signal losses.
You really need to ditch the alarm cable before you start looking for a fault elsewhere.
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I have a filtered master face plate if you want it, filter the ADSL at in the incoming bit and idealy have the router next to it.
I often use Cat5 for phone extensions as its cheap and plentiful plus I have quite a bit of the STP type.
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Just read the alarm cable bit :-[
Good idea to ditch that and use the proper stuff :y
Just checked my old paperwork ........... 3 is indead used for the old bell.
Just use 2 and 5 and use (as mentioned on here) twisted pairs if possible :y
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Just read the alarm cable bit :-[
Good idea to ditch that and use the proper stuff :y
Just checked my old paperwork ........... 3 is indead used for the old bell.
Just use 2 and 5 and use (as mentioned on here) twisted pairs if possible :y
Yes and when I had FTTC installed the tosser didn't bother connecting 3 back up so my original dial type phone with a proper BELL didn't work!
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Just read the alarm cable bit :-[
Good idea to ditch that and use the proper stuff :y
Just checked my old paperwork ........... 3 is indead used for the old bell.
Just use 2 and 5 and use (as mentioned on here) twisted pairs if possible :y
Yes and when I had FTTC installed the tosser didn't bother connecting 3 back up so my original dial type phone with a proper BELL didn't work!
I can probably remember (just) how to restrap that so it would ring ;D
Trouble is, the pulse dialling would tinkle the other phones with 3 not connected.
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Just read the alarm cable bit :-[
Good idea to ditch that and use the proper stuff :y
Just checked my old paperwork ........... 3 is indead used for the old bell.
Just use 2 and 5 and use (as mentioned on here) twisted pairs if possible :y
Yes and when I had FTTC installed the tosser didn't bother connecting 3 back up so my original dial type phone with a proper BELL didn't work!
I can probably remember (just) how to restrap that so it would ring ;D
Trouble is, the pulse dialling would tinkle the other phones with 3 not connected.
Not if they had a thermistor fitted.
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Thanks for all the advice guys. I gave with it in the end and got a PCI wireless card! ;) ;D ;D ;D
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Thanks for all the advice guys. I gave with it in the end and got a PCI wireless card! ;) ;D ;D ;D
Cheat ;D ;D ;D