Hi all, first time poster with a problem that I hope you guys can help with.
Basically, since I've lived at my current house (3 years), unless I plug a phone into the master socket downstairs by the front door, I don't get a ring tone and can't use it. An extension cable is plugged into the master which goes under the stairs and splits via a junction box to a socket downstairs and one upstairs where the PC is. Here the plot thickens because I get broadband fine using the wall socket, but no joy with the phone.
I spent some time this weekend attacking the wiring and considering everything I'd read and everyone I'd spoken to had said that all I really need is wires on terminals 2 and 5, there were wires connected up all over the place in the junction box. I've now basically ended up where I started, with just the broadband working, but at least it's just with 2 wires on 2 and 5.
As an aside, using a long extension plugged into the master and run up to the PC, the broadband is much faster than when plugged into the socket upstairs. Not sure what that means but the broadband through the socket now is so slow that I've resorted to using the extension lead.
Basically, I'm not sure where to go from here. The extension cable from the master that runs to the junction box has red, green, black and yellow wires and with red on 2 and yellow on 5 I get broadband, but I also get broadband with black and yellow connected on 2 and 5. On the cable running out of this I've got blue/white on 2 and white/blue on 5 and I've connected the same up at the corresponding socket.
It's very frustrating because I feel like I'm so close to sorting this out and yet so far and not sure if I'm doing it right and what to do next! All help much appreciated, many thanks
Seb
Basically, since I've lived at my current house (3 years), unless I plug a phone into the master socket downstairs by the front door, I don't get a ring tone and can't use it. An extension cable is plugged into the master which goes under the stairs and splits via a junction box to a socket downstairs and one upstairs where the PC is. Here the plot thickens because I get broadband fine using the wall socket, but no joy with the phone.
I spent some time this weekend attacking the wiring and considering everything I'd read and everyone I'd spoken to had said that all I really need is wires on terminals 2 and 5, there were wires connected up all over the place in the junction box. I've now basically ended up where I started, with just the broadband working, but at least it's just with 2 wires on 2 and 5.
As an aside, using a long extension plugged into the master and run up to the PC, the broadband is much faster than when plugged into the socket upstairs. Not sure what that means but the broadband through the socket now is so slow that I've resorted to using the extension lead.
Basically, I'm not sure where to go from here. The extension cable from the master that runs to the junction box has red, green, black and yellow wires and with red on 2 and yellow on 5 I get broadband, but I also get broadband with black and yellow connected on 2 and 5. On the cable running out of this I've got blue/white on 2 and white/blue on 5 and I've connected the same up at the corresponding socket.
It's very frustrating because I feel like I'm so close to sorting this out and yet so far and not sure if I'm doing it right and what to do next! All help much appreciated, many thanks
Seb
