House Phone Line Wiring
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- Опубликовано: 23 июн 2017
- Short and simple video on wiring your home phone jacks (residential). The wiring or home telephone service (also known as POTS or Analog) is fairly simple. The most important part is to keep the wire colors consistently on the same terminals.
Almost all residential phone service uses just 2 wires (also referred to as "one pair"). Each pair of wires has a "TIP" and a "RING". (or kind of like Neg and Positive, but not really).
In home phone wiring TIP is usually GREEN and RING is RED. However, you may have commercial cabling in your home that is refered to as "Category 3, 4, 5, or 6" cabling. With the Cat3 and above cables, the wire colors are different. Tip is white, with blue spots. And, RING is Blue with White spots.
Also, Category 3 (and above) cabling will include a total of 8 wires. If you are only dealing with one phone number, then you only need to worry about the White/Blue and Blue/White. If you have a 2nd phone number coming into your home then that would go on the White/Orange and Orange/White.
House phone wiring begins at the entry point from the street or Telephone pole. This is called a "Demarc" or "point of demarcation". This is the junction box where phone service from companies like AT&T, SBC, Verizon, PacBell, or Frontier begins. All the wiring from this point into your house is your responsibility. Unless, you have inside wiring insurance.
The wiring that goes from the demarc junction box back to the telephone pole or under ground is the property of the phone company. DO NOT mess with the wiring on THEIR side!
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Thank you Sir. You have no idea the relief your easy to understand explanation and visual has given me. Thanks to you I can now fix the wiring, instead of having to beat the crap out of the tech who installed my home WiFi. I am grateful, thanks again!
Wow Marcy, what a glowing compliment. I shall have to print it out and put it on my office wall to remind me to keep making more content like this.
Sorry to hear about the frustration.. unfortunately I hear it often. Good luck! 😊
Super explanation! The jacks in our house were over 40 years old and with your help, they are all brand new now. Thank you.
wow, that's great! Glad I could help out. :-)
I'm an intern at my local telephone company. When I was in I/R, we never installed the older, cat3 style of cable. We'd always use cat5e on residential installs. For bonded DSL installs, in particular, adjacent pairs found in cat3 are prone to experience interference from each other. Nowadays, you can often find cat5e for less than cat3.
You will usually find cat3 in older homes so best know the cat3 installations
Thank you for your videos. They are really helpful! I just started a new job as a field tech and while they provide on the job training, being the "new guy" I sometimes feel like asking too many questions makes me a bother when on work sites. By watching your videos it helps me learn at my own pace with my tools in my home lab!
+willdogs droid Yep, we've all been there. Would have been nice to have a resource like this when I was new in the field. I do make videos with aspiring telecom pros in mind. You might like my other channel if you haven't seen it already.
RUclips.com/networkadvisor
Similar topics as this channel but with more of a data & networking slant.
Good luck and thanks for the comment! :-)
ask your question and commit the answer to a personal book and you will never have to ask twice. Did this as an apprentice nearly 47 years ago and keep up to date even for today's new tech.
I am am currently running g an in-class training for new hires and at times I need a quick refresh on certain things and I've found your videos are very helpful and you are thorough on explaining what it is you use and what your using them for. Great job!
Appreciate you explain this phone wiring, the step by step illustration was awesome. Didn't know of any red, blue or green wires LOL. I can't believe a large house we bought comes with only one phone jack, and oddly from all places, it's built-in in the kitchen wall. Anyway, thank you very much !!
thanks for the feedback Danny! good luck with your house. :-)
Thank you VERY much for this video. It told me EXACTLY what I needed to know to figure out the wiring in my new (old) house. Fantastic!
Thanks for the feedback, Eric. Glad that helped. 😊
Thanks a million!!! i was trying to terminate an old 4 color ribbon cable with a cat 5 keystone jack and your explanation at 8:30 was exactly what I needed. I appreciate your video.
right? it can be confusing with all those colors floating around. The residential color code being different from the commercial color code doesn't help! :-D
Thanks for the feed back, Jared. :)
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I looked at several videos and my phone didn't work. But your explaination of the blue wires helped a lot. Now my phone line is working properly.
Wonderful news Catherine. Glad you got it! ☺️
Thanks so much! Great video that explained some worries I’ve had about a Hurricane Harvey house. I can at least trouble shoot now before I get professional help.
thanks Dragon. Houston is my home town. My thoughts have been with you folks. Good luck with your recovery.
I have a 1960s bell chime ringer and when I moved and took it to my new apartment I had a hell of a time hooking it up in my new apartment because of that new wiring
New Wiring.... your referring to the cat5? thats kind of become the new standard. Even for voice.
THANK YOU!!! You're video is the only one I found helpful when working with the 4 paired wires.
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Thank you for the color explanation . I was able to connect to a RJ45 keystone jack to an older standard 4 color wire . 😃
Great, easy-to-understand and easy-to-follow video. What really helped me was explaining the difference between the commercial and residential wiring. For some odd reason, my house has commercial phone wiring. The description of matching the colors from the commercial wires to a residential wall mount helped immensely; the phone worked perfectly the first time. Thanks much.
The narrator has been doing telecom/network cabling for a very long time. The house phone wiring for my house, which was built last year, the technician used outdoor rated Cat5e and did one pair for the phone line and one pair for DSL. I was curious and did open my network interface in my front yard, and looks like they ran your red,green,yellow,black cable to feed the ouse and the inside was wired with Cat5e. Cat5e is fairly cheap, common, and most cable provider techs are usually fixing network problems on their end at commercial building, which are most likely using Cat5e or Cat6.
Exactly Tyler. Most techs are running around with only cat5e or cat6 on their trucks. That “drop wire” ( the tan cable with the red, green, black, yellow) is almost non-existent anymore .
Thanks for commenting! 😊
You are an electrical God! I was so afraid to attempt this, but you made everything so easy! Thanks a bunch! Off to get the "biscuit" wall mount 😊
That is great feedback Nancy. Good luck k with your repairs! 😄
This video saved my behind on installing a connection box for a camper. I couldn't figure out why each post on the j 45 had two different colors and which were correct. when you showed the two different kinds of cable the light came on . ohhh!!!
hey Michael. great to here my video helped. i know I get a lot of help from other youtubers and bloggers. thanks for the feedback. 🙂
nice video. I have been doing this stuff for 15 plus years, you explained it very well!
+Jeff Moss thanks Jeff. It helps to hear that from someone like you. Its always balancing-act. I try to restrain myself from over explaining the topic and thus losing my audience. The feedback is much appreciated. :-)
t 5:00 what is a single line?
how many users can be accommodated in 2 pairs?
the connection u get at the telephone exchange or de mod (whatever u call it.that thing outside ur house) how many users can use them max...because if it were max connections then they would have single demod for the whole neighbourhood.
plus make avideo of how a phone/modem splitter works..how a single copper wire is used to give telephone plus ethernet(internet) signals
t 5:00 what is a single line?
how many users can be accommodated in 2 pairs?
the connection u get at the telephone exchange or de mod (whatever u call it.that thing outside ur house) how many users can use them max...because if it were max connections then they would have single demod for the whole neighbourhood.
plus make avideo of how a phone/modem splitter works..how a single copper wire is used to give telephone plus ethernet(internet) signals
mashhood syed how to plug a n extension phone into a phone jack
Jeff Moss I'm using a modular model and need to connect broadband as well. Do I still use the 2 wires or do I use an additional one
Excellent Explanation, I am going to use this for some of my less analog knowledgeable people on my crew, thanks.... Great work
Thanks Ken :-)
Not sure what the installer did when we changed carriers, but I was able to fix it with your help! MANY THANKS!
Wow Charlotte! I love hearing stories like this! Thank you! 😁
How many of y'all watching this because you have work from home because the virus and need internet access lol
I will say there has definitely been an increase in the number of views over the past 30 days. Glad to know I can help ppl out during this crisis. thanks for the comment. :-)
Great video, Thank you. Michael
Thanks for the video. It is very helpful
Very useful instructions, very skilled at teaching in a clear & concise fashion, much appreciated, thank you.
Thanks for the feedback Gabriel. 😊
very useful, thanks
Absoulte amazing explanation mate! Been searching for hours and your the only person who could explain it properly!
Cheers man
That’s great to hear Marcus ! 😊
Explanation makes phone wiring so easy a child could do it! A thousand blessings upon you good sir!
Great, glad I could help make it easy! 😄
I had an issue with my phone line.
Your video helped me resolve the issue.
Thank you for the help. Very informative 👏
Always makes me happy to here someone fixed something and my videos helps a little. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Very helpful video. Thank you
hey there. It’s always great to get feedback. So glad I can help make some people’s lives easier. Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment.
Thanks again bro!
Very helpful, thanks!
This saved me a call to verizon today. Thank you!!
Well that certainly is good news then! :-D
Thank You. I was able to replace my grandma's old phone lines with new ones.
Had new phone service hooked up today. Used to use phone like with Verizon but went to Comcast which used phone line off back of modem. Now I'm back to fios and I plugged the phone in and it won't work. It's a screw post jack with only red and yellow hooked up. Is it possible they have line hooked to black and yellow? Figured I'd ask since I watched your video. I learned a lot from it.
@@roopaloooop red and yellow aren't a pair for inside wiring or outside plant. It would be black yellow, blue white and/or green red for inside. Outside its blue orange green brown slate is ring and white red black yellow violet is tip
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What's your grandmother's phone number so I can check to make sure its working ok
Certainly going to give it a go! Thanks!
Terrific presentation. I’d already rewired an old landline, but was concerned about the importance of the black and yellow wire (don’t want fires or other dangerous problems. Appreciate your clear, detailed, and concise video Than you!
I super-appreciate the feedback! 😊
Thank you so much!! This helped out so much!!! ❤❤ thank you for being simple and to the point.
Perfect instructions!!! I did turn off all the electricity in apartment.
So hlepful! Thank you!!
Thank you for sharing your video. It is simple but very informative. The phone jacks in the house worked before but stopped a week ago.The phone only works if plugged directly to the back of the router. Mine are currently wired opposite to yours as follows: solid blue to green, white-blue to red, solid orange to black and white-orange to yellow. House is 20 yrs old (built 1999). Do I follow the same color code wiring the same way they have it now or do I follow what's on the video?Thank you.
You just saved me a bunch of money. Thanks!
Glad I could help. :-)
Its a $300 callout fee for us. This saved me that and explained why my blue and white wires where wrong.
I feel like saul good man was just teaching me about basic phone line repair :)
ahahha... yes, I get that a lot. I was a BB fan, but haven't watched the Saul spin-off. :-)
It's pretty good had me rolling a few times
Great, thanks.
Just troublshooted a broken blue/white wire on the wall outlet!
Great video. Complete, to the point and clear. Thanks.
thank you for the feedback JJ. :-D
I'm pretty sure you need to strip about a half inch of insulation off of the red and the green bell conductors before you place each under the biscuit screw terminals; the blue and white-blue Cat 3 don't have to be stripped - just punched down on a modular jack.
I didn't mention anything about stripping back the insulation on the wires? Shame on me. I probably just assumed it was Electrical 101 and figured everyone would know that.
Thanks for clarifying! :-D
Of course they need to be stripped and he obviously knows that this is just a how to video to show us how to install. I find it funny when ppl point out the obvious like its something only the educated or professionals in the field know and the rest have to be told when all it is, is commonsense lol
Yeah, I've been looking for guidance on how to strip that insulation without damaging the wires. So far, every article on this topic skips over that part.
Electrical scissors bro
@@huttarl Your front teeth will work just fine and not damage the copper conductor causing future issues or faults. It will however fuck up your teeth in a hurry. Keep smilin'!
Great video thanks
I really appreciate this video, but it would've been nice to see how the wire(s) is connected on the other end at the Network Interface Box. Thanks.
ah, that's a good point John. Maybe this video needs a re-do.
Great suggestion. :)
@@DIYTelecom This was two years ago, did you ever do a re-do? Did you do another video covering that question? I need to know how many wires come from the dmarc into the house and is there at least 2 or possibly 4 wires inside that jacket? The wires I have don't seem to be the same colors. If you did another video on this please send the link. Thanks
Thank you for the video.
Simple and very helpful.
Yeah, thanks! That, explanation helped. The blue blue/white or double paired stunned me for sometime. We, want to move the biscuit interface from under headboard of our bed in the Master-bedroom, to the front hall foyer area for two reasons, one, easy access, and our new Flat Screen, T.V., seems to receive the Wireless DSL, signal much better at that location in the house. SO, thank you again for takig the time to explain this wiring stuff to us novice folks. Thanks Jimmy_Snags
Jimmy, happy to hear you got some useful info from my video. thanks for the feedback. :)
Excellent information...brings me closer to accomplishing what I need to for my house, which is full of CAT5e and CAT6 for data AND phones with a home room to a closet, where I can switch the purpose of the jack from phone to data. For example: disconnecting a phone line in the closet (it has an RJ45 connector) and plugging it into the switch. Now that I'm adding both data and phone jacks, I need to sort out the jack's pinouts and how to interconnect the additional phone cables to a single existing phone line. I'm thinking of rigging up rack-mounted patch panel with RJ45 keystones. Getting them all interconnected is the tricky part...not sure whether it's physically possible to punch down more than one wire on the keystones. Suggestions appreciated.
You're so fortunate to have those data-capable cable runs in your home. I am so jealous!
BTW, if you're not familiar. With my other RUclips channel- /networkadvisor , you might find it helpful for DIY network topics.
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Thank you so helpful was able to do the job .
hi Susan. So glad to hear I could help you out. Thanks for providing feedback! :-)
thanks , my nephew ripped the wire going to the spliier out of the face plate , this video helped understand how to fix them
Great job bro...very informative and straight to the point
Thanks Ross. Great feedback. And, thanks for watching. 😁
Great explanation. Thanks!
Thanks, you were very clear and helpful.
great video
Your video was a massive help, thank you very much for making this well explained video.
Glad to help Jesse. Thanks for the comments! :D
Great Video. I had an outlet that had two jacks, one was for the internet the other for phone. The phone jack only had two wires, the internet had 4. I changed to cable and used the space for the old Internet wires for the cable but had to reconnect the phone. So i connected the new jack and only used two wires that was used for the phone jack. All work fine, except the phone has a humming sound now. I wanted to know if it is possible one of those wires from the internet may have been a ground to terminate the buzzing. Can you help me with this issue?
Excellent explanation, thank you for the video 👏👏👏
Waw u helped me so much thank you
Love the video,perfect explanation can't ask better than this video🐣
Great to hear Juan. Glad I could help. ☺️
Plastic cover on my surface mount in residential house become brittle and broke. Didn't know anything about it but this video gives me confidence to replace it. Looks like a surface mount with an existing 4 strands of wire setup using a screw post setup.
Good luck sir 👍😊
Awesome. Thank you
hi Michael. thanks for the feedback. glad it you liked it. 😊
Thank you!
Bro your a life saver I just re connected my connections as my dog ripped them out and I have my NBN working again.
Oh I love hearing feedback like that! Glad I could help! 😊
Great video!!
Just a question at 3:54 what is called that black cable ( the isp cable )
Beautiful video, didnt know how to wire it and im a red seal but i dont do data, u explained it perfectly
I'll take the compliment, thank you. ☺️
Doesn't really matter as long as it's the same on both ends, which color it is doesn't matter much
Finally a ideo explaining in simple terms how to DIY phone wires for myself. Single mum with a 14 year old nagging how to connect the internet thanks you very much . ,😃😃😃
Thanks for the feedback Amanda. Glad it helped! 😊
I recently had the fun part of extending the connection from my room (where the live socket is for my connection) out into the lounge room to my new Data Cabinet so everything is one location as I wanted everything out of the bedroom. Needless to say I had to look at the box I had purchased to get it connect it took a little while to realise its on the 2 center pins that are used so had to track what colours which turned out to be Red/Green ones that was all done I had the Cat6 run already so it was patched into that into my Patch Panel so that's all done but I will have to re-do the socket plug as it was done a little weirdly lol mind you I have to say I was happy as I have never done it before lol.. Good video
that's great to hear James. that technique is common in the commercial work too. Thanks for watching and letting me know what you're working on. Helps me make better content in the future. :-)
DIY Telecom I’m currently getting the 380 hours I need to do my Open Cablers Course... love Australia and their archaic laws sheesh they love their $$$$$$ lol
Oh wow... so that’s how it is down there? While I do agree that may be OVERKILL (yes, pun for the M.A.W. fans in the US) 😆 unfortunately that wouldn’t be such a bad idea for some of the junior techs here in the US. I see a tremendous amount if sloppy work in the field.
Good luck with that James. 😄
DIY Telecom it’s overkill on everything here lol. I’ve had to apply for my security license just to install Security Camera Systems and Alarm Systems 🤑 electrical I can understand but Data like for real lol 🤦♂️
Hi! I have 2 questions. 1. I've been remodeling my kitchen. I removed some drywall which exposed 2 lengths of phone cable that were spliced together. The splices were done with wire nuts. I know it's a code violation to splice 115, 120 volt together and then cover over with drywall, but is this ok for phone cable? 2. When you work on phone connectors like the ones you show in the video, shouldn't you some how turn off the power to the phone? Perhaps at the "D-mark" (sp?). If so, how do you do that at the dmark?
Thanks for the tips
what do you do with the brown wires?
done lots of training myself - you walk the tightrope very well - didn't fall off at all :-)
Thank you! As an instructor, I’m sure you can appreciate that fine balance of trying to teach a complex concept in the simplest terms. I suspect that’s what you meant with the tightrope analogy. Thanks for the comments! 😊
The one I opened has like 18 twisted pairs
Could a beginner do this? What safety precautions should I take?
Very good video thank you very much
+Alexandre Laia thanks for the feedback. :-)
Thank you very much 👍👍
Really helpful thank you mate!
Happy to hear that sir! 😊
5:36 is very helpful
Hey Thx!
My pleasure. Glad I could help. :-)
What is the supply voltage that feeds the vintage telephones with the bells? Is it 24 volts AC or DC?
Great video man!!!
Thanks for the feedback ☺
This was really helpful, just fixed our intercom 😊
thanks
so glad I could help. :)
I dont have a jack so i need to connect it directly so idk to which one i need to connect the comercial wires the solid blue and the other i need to connect to what i only got red white yellow and blue
Good sound, nice quality video, should help me accomplish what I need to do.. which was to just purchase the correct exterior cable. Bonus was learning there IS a methodology to the don't to mix up the red & the green & the white blue & the WHAT was that again? *hits replay* 🔁
Have you ever seen a wall phone jack with prongs like a fork on the back and the wires are wrapped between the prongs? The outside of the jack is no longer useable in our new home (built mid 1960s). We have wire sets and colors that were connected are blue with yellow stripes and yellow with blue stripes and the other set is red with blue strips/ blue with red stripes. Trying to replace the jack so we can plug the modem into the outlet, but need to replace the jack first. Assuming we shouldn't cut the wires or we may loose phone connectivity in the other jacks. Thanks in advance for any suggestions to help us solve this mystery jack.
Great explanation. Turns out my condo has serial setup.
Good in depth video but low quality audio ok
Thank you. Good video.
Excellent video-my Florida house built in 2004 has CAT 4 or 5 all serial (daisy-chained). I suspect there was a wall mount that was abandoned-kitchen renovation. (tiled over) I have access front attic, both lines going down to old wall mount. Can I cut and splice all pairs together using your Redhead method. I suspect this is why further down stream one of my phone lines is not working......a dull sound when I pick up phone from that location. So I simply follow the pairing as you described?
Yes, pretty much what you said will work. Good luck!
I've been guilty of running 2 POTS lines + 100MB network through a single CAT5e. Line 1 on Bl/wBl, Line 2 on Br/wBr, and my RJ45 stuffed with G/wG/O/-/-/wO :) As always, great video. I'm in the same field but really enjoy these nonetheless. Thanks!
Huh.... I always wondered if you could do that. Interesting. The other thing I never tried is: Can you run two 100baseT connections in one cable (using the blue and the brown). I always figured the crosstalk would slow things down.
Great comment! 😄
@@DIYTelecom Thanks! I've actually done that with a high degree of success. absolutely zero signal degradation, same speed and latency regardless of what's behind it with n0 on G/wG/Br/wBr and n1 on O/wO/Bl/wBl. It wasn't a relatively long run (under 150') but when I used green and blue for n0 and orange and brown for n1, it resulted in a somewhat significant increase in latency but the speed stayed the exact same. I wouldn't do it in a production environment, but it's always fun to tinker with wires. :) I was actually researching what would happen when ignoring best practices--did a run with a cable that was bent to heck and back, one where I used CAT3/guitar cable/phono leads instead, etc.
So I guess those pairs are laid out (568A-B) for a reason then if it makes that much difference. I would not have thought that. Sounds like YOU should be making YT videos! 😁
2 phones and dsl bonded service will work just fine with 100mb with cat5, you only need 2 pairs data if you are bonded, your speed will depend on how far you are from the switch ur being fed from
Thank u a lot for the video
Wonderful. Thanks for the feedback. Glad to help.😊
You saved the day once again...
That’s great news George. So happy to hear it! I know how often YT saves my rear (especially home and auto repairs). Thanks for the feedback! 😁
needed a refresher course 😂thanks for the info!
How about this... I sometimes have to watch my old videos just to remember how to do something (seriously). 😆
Thanks for your information,it helps a lot
Glad the video helped 😊
This was very helpful, thank you.
Glad to help. And, thanks for the feedback! :-)
Please in my house I don't have the phone wire connection but I want to install one so how do I go about it?
Needed to see how you do the ones that are not solid color. Thanks
Oh good. It would be confusing to me if I wasn't already in the industry. Glad that helped. 😊
Thank you for the video. Well done. We currently have a non-working phone line in our house (Uniden handset displays Check TEL Line) with two (2) beige wires coming out of one of the junction boxes, all wires red, green, yellow and black. Does this mean we have two phone lines? Wiring might be wrong somewhere because we swapped the faceplates for newer ones and had to get new wall jacks.
hi Justin, Just because you have the Green/Red and Black/Yellow doesn't mean you have two lines. If I was troubleshooting that problem, I would be focused on just the red/green. Good luck!
Thank you so much sir!
Thank you..you saved me time and cash
That's the best kind of compliment!! 😊
Can't find that drywall mount "Caddy clip?" for phone mount to drywall cutout.
Anybody got a link?