Phone socket wiring

Ro-76

Hi,

Does anyone know the colour coding for wiring a phone socket?

We recently moved our phone socket (one of those cheap little square boxes), and rewired it. The problem is that 2 of the wires became disconnected. We've wired up the 2 wires that were still connected, but don't know what terminals to connect the remaining wires to because the colour coding on the incoming cable is different to the socket.

Since the rewiring, some wierd stuff has happened, like one phone will only work on a particluar extension, and my internet connection stalls all the time.

Currently this is the arrangement:

CABLE- SOCKET
Blue

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Red
Blue+WhiteStripes

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Green
Orange

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NOT CONNECTED
Orange+WhiteStripes

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NOT CONNECTED
NOT CONNECTED

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Yellow
NOT CONNECTED

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Black

Basically, I don't know if Oragne or Orange+WhiteStripes goes to Yellow or Black.

It's an old line, so maybe these are out of date etc.

I don't want to pay Eircom a fortune to have a guy spend about 10 seconds sorting it out, so I thought there's surely someone here who knows.

Thanks

Ro

The_Bullman

i disconnected mine before.

there where only 2 wires connected. the blue pair. they where connected to the top 2 connection thingys


this is what the back of the socket looked like on mine.
-0 0- the pair of blue wires where connected to the top two screws
-0 0-
-0 0-
-0 0-

spongebob

could be the blue or orange pair but only 2 wires are used, could be one of each colour, the order of the 2 does not matter once you find them.

the pair from outside should connect to the central 2 pins, you seem to have a six pin socket of some sort, the red and green is frequently the centre pair in a telephone lead .

m