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Mr Skrunts Over Active Poster Offline 3.O Elite Saloon with all the toys, Posts: 23830 Skruntie Land. Gender: Drives: Jimbob Mad It seems	Qiuck Question - BT Cable 03. Jun 2009 at 14:27 Am just about to order some bits. Just seen 2,3 or 4 pair cable to run some boxes arrounf the house. How many pairs do I need? TIA.
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Zulu77 Ex Member	Re: Qiuck Question - BT Cable Reply #1 - 03. Jun 2009 at 14:35 When I redid the various extensions at home Skruntie I used 0.5 2 pair - although I only connected 1 pair into the system, leaving the other pair redundant
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Kevin Wood Global Moderator Admin Team Offline Posts: 20377 Alton, Hampshire Gender: Drives: 3.2 MV6 (LPG), Westfield	Re: Qiuck Question - BT Cable Reply #2 - 03. Jun 2009 at 16:11 For a single line you need 1 pair plus a single ringing line, which you can often get away without. Kevin
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Re: Qiuck Question - BT Cable
Reply #3 - 03. Jun 2009 at 16:30

Technically, you are supposed to use a pair for speech, and the orange wire for ringing, optionally white orange for Earth recall. Green pair for data on older pbx (BT Norstar and similar use orange pair for data and speech).

So most domestic houses, blue pair and the Orange wire in use.

Since the advent of ADSL, there are some performance gains to be had under some circumstances by not using the ringing circuit. This is pretty much what the i-plate does. This may stop some phones, particularly older ones, from ringing though.

Whatever wires you need/use, its wired as follows

1 - Green/White
2 - Blue/White
3 - Orange/White
4 - White/Orange
5 - White/Blue
6 - White/Green

As said, in domestic house, you will definately need 2 and 5 connected, possibly 3.

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Re: Qiuck Question - BT Cable
Reply #4 - 03. Jun 2009 at 16:39

TheBoy wrote on 03. Jun 2009 at 16:30:

Technically, you are supposed to use a pair for speech, and the orange wire for ringing, optionally white orange for Earth recall. Green pair for data on older pbx (BT Norstar and similar use orange pair for data and speech).

So most domestic houses, blue pair and the Orange wire in use.

Since the advent of ADSL, there are some performance gains to be had under some circumstances by not using the ringing circuit. This is pretty much what the i-plate does. This may stop some phones, particularly older ones, from ringing though.

Whatever wires you need/use, its wired as follows

1 - Green/White
2 - Blue/White
3 - Orange/White
4 - White/Orange
5 - White/Blue
6 - White/Green

As said, in domestic house, you will definately need 2 and 5 connected, possibly 3.

Wish the feckwit who wired our house had observed that. Current wired with 3 wires - one from EACH pair. Angry

Needless to say the ADSL is filtered at the master socket or it'd be radiating everywhere.

I did get half way round the house correcting it once, before I had a sense of humour failure and put it all back how it was. Angry

Kevin

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Re: Qiuck Question - BT Cable
Reply #5 - 03. Jun 2009 at 16:42

Kevin Wood wrote on 03. Jun 2009 at 16:39:

TheBoy wrote on 03. Jun 2009 at 16:30:

Technically, you are supposed to use a pair for speech, and the orange wire for ringing, optionally white orange for Earth recall. Green pair for data on older pbx (BT Norstar and similar use orange pair for data and speech).

So most domestic houses, blue pair and the Orange wire in use.

Since the advent of ADSL, there are some performance gains to be had under some circumstances by not using the ringing circuit. This is pretty much what the i-plate does. This may stop some phones, particularly older ones, from ringing though.

Whatever wires you need/use, its wired as follows

1 - Green/White
2 - Blue/White
3 - Orange/White
4 - White/Orange
5 - White/Blue
6 - White/Green

As said, in domestic house, you will definately need 2 and 5 connected, possibly 3.

Wish the feckwit who wired our house had observed that. Current wired with 3 wires - one from EACH pair. Angry

Needless to say the ADSL is filtered at the master socket or it'd be radiating everywhere.

I did get half way round the house correcting it once, before I had a sense of humour failure and put it all back how it was. Angry

Kevin

Even if filtered at master, its likely you'll still be suffering. Might be worth fixing it, then seeing if your sync rate improves.

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Re: Qiuck Question - BT Cable
Reply #6 - 03. Jun 2009 at 22:57

Many thanks eveyone.

Am having a new line from the pole outside fitted tomorrow as I was told I wasnt on a line at the exchange.

Might just leave the master socket to do all the work as I have twin DECT phones, So tha main base/phone and Modem/rputer can plug into the master. I was because I was considering a new pair of phones that I consodered the 2nd socket and I could add the new phones as I realised they were all Gap xompatible.

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