how to hard wire an extension

[westlondoner]

Hi All,
New here, I have been reading a lots of posts but I am not yet sure how to go about this.I would like to make an extension like the example in your diagram three http://www.dslzoneuk.net/socket.php
My current BT socket has six wires and the new cable I bought only has four(orange-ish,brown,green and blue).
Please can anyone tell me which colour goes to which numbers. Thank you very much for your help in advance.

[razpag]

It doesn't really matter as long as whatever colour you put on '2' at one end, you put the same colour on '2' at the other end.

But .... the Openreach standard is Blue on '2', Orange on '5' and Green on '3'.

HTH

[razpag]

PS ........ welcome to DSL Zone mate.

[westlondoner]

Hi razpag
Thanks very much for the reply and the welcome. Just wondered since I have an eight core cable currently connected to the main BT socket (6 connected,2 unused) may I remove the 1,4,6 and connect the Blue,Orange, and Green from my 4 core cable to 2,5,3 as you suggested? I am putting this extension to connect my spare computer in the kitchen and will not use the line to connect a phone. I have a BT HUB phone there already.
Cheers

[razpag]

You certainly can. The correct way to wire an extention socket is to provide the positive and negative (ie the feed) on terminals 2 and 5, and the 'bell wire' on terminal 3. However, the dongle type filters have a ringing capacitor built-in to the unit, and as such you dont need to connect this 3rd wire. It also has benefits in not connecting this particular wire as it is very susceptible to high-frequency 'noise' which can and does play havoc with the Broadband connection.

So if I were you, i'd only connect to 2 and 5.

PS ... the reason there is 6 terminal is because business telephony systems require these other terminals for switching between extentions within the building, LED screens etc etc .......

[westlondoner]

Thank you very much for your help.
All connections are done now struggling to get the Netgear to talk to power book and go on line!

[razpag]

Cant help you with that one i'm afraid, but you can bet there'll be someone on here who'll be able to help out.

[MILOS10000]

Thank you very much for your help.
All connections are done now struggling to get the Netgear to talk to power book and go on line!

You get connected in the end?

[westlondoner]

Thanks for your reply but NO,I think it is more complicated than I thought. What I have now is a BT Home Hub 2.0 in the front room running my iMac wirelessly and all working fine there. However when I want to use my old Power Book(G4) in the kitchen or in my bed room it wont pick up the signal from the BT HUB, but my i Phone picks up the signal from it.By the way i live in a small flat and not build with thick stone walls etc!. The reason that i hard wire and put a new BT socket in the kitchen is to use my old(6months) Netgear router. Anyway a friend of mine told me that I cannot use two different hubs/routers on one line. Is this correct? if its correct, is there a way to get around it without getting someone in to look at it? Grateful for any advice.

[jaketm]

yes, unplug the home hub from the phone line and plug the netgear in.

[westlondoner]

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for your replies. I have since bought a Solwise ADSL Filtered BT/RJ11 Faceplate http://www.solwise.co.uk/images/adsl-ffp85d.gif
Could you please tell me how do i connect this plate, is it same before?
Thanks very much

[MILOS10000]

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for your replies. I have since bought a Solwise ADSL Filtered BT/RJ11 Faceplate http://www.solwise.co.uk/images/adsl-ffp85d.gif
Could you please tell me how do i connect this plate, is it same before?
Thanks very much

Did you connect ok in the end?