Can anybody help me with my phone jack?
I’m trying to wire a phone line to a jack, but my wires are different colors than it shows on any diagram I can find. I have a blue wire, an orange wire, a blue and white wire, and an orange and white wire.
Is there any way to figure out which wire corresponds to the standard red, black, yellow, green system, besides trying all 24 combinations?
Okay, I went out and checked the pairing, came inside, and wired them correctly. I’m not getting a dial tone with or without the dsl filter.
I know the phone’s good because it works in another room. Is it possible to “turn off” part of the phone lines in a house? This part is recently added-on…I don’t know if that makes a difference.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Connect the blue wire to the green, the blue/white to the red.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Go outside your house and look for the phone feed into your house. Look at the pairing the phone company used. There is your combination. You will have one set as your primary line in. you just need to check those 2 pairs to find out which one is being used.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
You are looking at the standard color,s code for 3 pair 5pair ect ,dont get excited red and black first pair yel grn second pair .Match these w/blue orange,then blue w/white trace,then orange w/white trace.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Your wires are the new standard; the red/black/yellow/green is the old standard. There’s a nice clear diagram in the source I listed. Good luck!
White/orange -> black
Blue -> red
White/blue -> green
Orange -> yellow
January 27th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
I had the same problem, and the easiest way to solve it is to take apart another jack that is already connected and examine how the wires are hooked up. Not all phone lines and jacks are hooked up the same in every house, so if you have a working jack that will be your best bet.
Works every time!