Question about phone cable

[st.cronin]

I have some eccentric phone cable in my house, not sure if its old-school or Mexican or what, but it looks like this:

1 pairs of solid Blue
1 pairs of Blue and White
1 pairs of solid Grey
1 pairs of Grey and White
1 pairs of what looks like Red with Blue stripes
1 pairs of what looks like Blue with Red stripes

Does anybody know how this matches up with the normal Green/Red/Yellow/Black?

Thank you.

[Rizon]

I have some eccentric phone cable in my house, not sure if its old-school or Mexican or what, but it looks like this:

2 pairs of solid Blue
2 pairs of Blue and White
2 pairs of solid Grey
2 pairs of Grey and White
2 pairs of what looks like Red with Blue stripes
2 pairs of what looks like Blue with Red stripes

Does anybody know how this matches up with the normal Green/Red/Yellow/Black?

Thank you.

I believe I had the same setup when I took off my old phone jack to replace it with a new one. I think the answer is it doesn't, but I'm not sure if I couldn't replace the jack because of the wires, or because of the plate the wires ran into that I couldn't replace. Either way, I couldn't replace the jack.

[DanGarion]

So what you are saying is behind your wallplate you have 24 wires? Is this how every wallplate is?

[st.cronin]

Sorry instead of '2 pairs' that should read '1 pair'.

This is the wire running through my roof and down to each of the phone jacks. One of my phone jacks got accidentally torn out, and I am trying to replace it, but I don't know how to connect these wires.

Rizon, are you saying there is another kind of jack available?

[DanGarion]

Ok next question, this means you have 12 total wires right?

Are these "pairs" in separate jackets? Like do you have two separate groups of wires?

1 with
Blue
Blue/white
Grey
Grey/white
Red/Blue
Blue/Red

and the second one
Blue
Blue/white
Grey
Grey/white
Red/Blue
Blue/Red
?

Do you only have one phone line/number?

If so and is you have other jacks in the house, see if it's the same and just connect the same wires that are connected at the other jack.

[st.cronin]

Ok next question, this means you have 12 total wires right?

Are these "pairs" in separate jackets? Like do you have two separate groups of wires?

1 with
Blue
Blue/white
Grey
Grey/white
Red/Blue
Blue/Red

and the second one
Blue
Blue/white
Grey
Grey/white
Red/Blue
Blue/Red
?

Do you only have one phone line/number?

If so and is you have other jacks in the house, see if it's the same and just connect the same wires that are connected at the other jack.

1 phone line, I forget exactly what the line looks like in the ceiling - I know there's a bunch of other colored wires as well, like orange and yellow and white, which are not fed to the individual jacks. There is one other jack in the bedroom (farthest from where the line actually comes into the house), which has the red/yellow/black/green connections - the line to that jack is spliced in somewhere in either the walls or the ceiling and I haven't been able to find that splice.

[st.cronin]

dola, to answer your other question - the wires are all bundled together and fed to the jack. They are not in separate packs.

[DanGarion]

Well theoretically the pairs should be

Tip + / Ring -
Blue White with Blue
Grey White with Grey
Red/Blue wit Blue/Red

But this isn't a standard cable... YMMV.

But the fact that you have two of each confuses me, unless it's part of a loop and you just can't see back to the jacket of the individual cables...

Best bet is if you can see what another jack has connected on the jack and match up with that. If it doesn't work just switch out with the other matching color and eventually you should get it right, if you get dial tone you should be all good. Extremely little chance of breaking anything, just hope no one calls you while you are swapping the wires, might give you a little shock. :)

[CU Tiger]

Sounds like a standard 6 con multi use (security usually) cable that is looped through.

*SHOULD* use blue/blue white as line 1, grey/gw line 2 and rb/br as line 3

With eeach color having an "in" and an "out"

[st.cronin]

So which are lines 1, 2, and 3 for the yellow/green/red/black setup?

[JediKooter]

Green goes with red and black goes with yellow.

As for the IW (Internal Wiring) Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate (grey).

Usually, but, not always, the blue pair is for line 1, orange is for line 2, etc...

So, take the blue pair (blue/white-blue wires) and they would be paired up with the green and red wires that are attached to the phone jack. Then the orange/white-orange would be paired up with the yellow and black wires that are attached to the phone jack.

Here's a pretty good link: http://www.homephonewiring.com/clr-code.html

[st.cronin]

Great link, thank you.

[JediKooter]

Great link, thank you.

You're welcome. It's come in handy quite a few times. :)