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Winter Mute
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      10-28-2003, 12:42 PM
Hi there,

Been searching the web for an answer all morning to no avail. The
decorator managed to pull the NTE5 adapter off the wall and the wires
came out (i.e. the actual BT cable). Seems I don't have the normal
colours, they are red, black, green and yellow (or orange). I imagine I
just need to connect to 2 & 5 to get the ADSL working, but I'm not sure
which colours to connect.

Anyone know which ones go where?

thanks, john


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Kráftéé
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      10-28-2003, 01:21 PM
Winter Mute wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Been searching the web for an answer all morning to no avail. The
> decorator managed to pull the NTE5 adapter off the wall and the
> wires came out (i.e. the actual BT cable). Seems I don't have the
> normal colours, they are red, black, green and yellow (or orange).
> I imagine I just need to connect to 2 & 5 to get the ADSL working,
> but I'm not sure which colours to connect.
>
> Anyone know which ones go where?
>
> thanks, john


Nope as it sounds like your extensions have been run using burglar
alarm cable...

Only way to be sure is to check the connections in your extension
sockets & then use the same coding on the NTE

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Mike
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      10-28-2003, 11:25 PM
What you are talking about is the BT 'drop wire' that first enters the
house. It consists of the normal pair (red and green) that carry the
telephone signal, two yellow steel wires that give the cable
support/strength when used overhead and the black wires are only there
to make the cable bundle circular to fit inside the circular outer
sheath so that crimp supension thingys work properly.

Therefore you should be OK with the red and green. However if someone
has connected it wrongly previously, you may need to do trail and error.
It won't hurt you to touch the ends. If you have a multimeter, you will
find about 50volts DC across the relevant pair.

Mike



Kráftéé wrote:

>Winter Mute wrote:
>
>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>Been searching the web for an answer all morning to no avail. The
>>decorator managed to pull the NTE5 adapter off the wall and the
>>wires came out (i.e. the actual BT cable). Seems I don't have the
>>normal colours, they are red, black, green and yellow (or orange).
>>I imagine I just need to connect to 2 & 5 to get the ADSL working,
>>but I'm not sure which colours to connect.
>>
>>Anyone know which ones go where?
>>
>>thanks, john
>>
>>

>
>Nope as it sounds like your extensions have been run using burglar
>alarm cable...
>
>Only way to be sure is to check the connections in your extension
>sockets & then use the same coding on the NTE
>
>
>



 
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Kráftéé
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      10-29-2003, 08:41 AM
Mike wrote:
> What you are talking about is the BT 'drop wire' that first enters
> the house. It consists of the normal pair (red and green) that
> carry the telephone signal, two yellow steel wires that give the
> cable support/strength when used overhead and the black wires are
> only there to make the cable bundle circular to fit inside the
> circular outer sheath so that crimp supension thingys work
> properly.



_WRONG_____

Dropwire consists of either Orange & White with a yellow cantilever
wire (Dropwire 12), Orange & White or Black & Green with 3 yellow or
white cantilever wires (Dropwire 10) or Orange & White, Red & Slate,
Blue & Brown, Black & Green with 3 cantilever wires (Dropwire
14)......

Now where do you find a pair consisting of red/green.

As I've already stated the electrician (sic) who wired his house has
used burglar alarm cable, which does have a pair (in a very lose
sense) which are red/green.

>
>
> Kráftéé wrote:
>
> Winter Mute wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Been searching the web for an answer all morning to no avail. The
> decorator managed to pull the NTE5 adapter off the wall and the
> wires came out (i.e. the actual BT cable). Seems I don't have the
> normal colours, they are red, black, green and yellow (or orange).
> I imagine I just need to connect to 2 & 5 to get the ADSL working,
> but I'm not sure which colours to connect.
>
> Anyone know which ones go where?
>
> thanks, john
>
>
> Nope as it sounds like your extensions have been run using burglar
> alarm cable...
>
> Only way to be sure is to check the connections in your extension
> sockets & then use the same coding on the NTE




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Colin Wilson
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      10-29-2003, 09:11 PM
> Therefore you should be OK with the red and green. However if someone
> has connected it wrongly previously, you may need to do trail and error.
> It won't hurt you to touch the ends. If you have a multimeter, you will
> find about 50volts DC across the relevant pair.


IIRC if you connect them the "wrong" way round you`ll get a phone ringing
constantly, and if that`s the case, its the other way :-}

I`m probably talking out of my ass here - i`ve got a terrible memory but
it rings a bell (pun not intended) :-}

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      11-01-2003, 08:28 AM
"Colin Wilson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > Therefore you should be OK with the red and green. However if someone
> > has connected it wrongly previously, you may need to do trail and error.
> > It won't hurt you to touch the ends. If you have a multimeter, you will
> > find about 50volts DC across the relevant pair.

>
> IIRC if you connect them the "wrong" way round you`ll get a phone ringing
> constantly, and if that`s the case, its the other way :-}
>
> I`m probably talking out of my ass here - i`ve got a terrible memory but
> it rings a bell (pun not intended) :-}
>
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Thanks all for your comments, I've now managed to connect direct to the BT
news server instead of going via Mailgate. I didn't expect that asking a
simple question would start such an exchange, does that always happen...

-john


 
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