We've switched phone from Virgin to Sky/BT, we've got socket V (Virgin) in
living room, which works & connects to the extension upstairs plus a second
socket B (BT) at the opposite end of the room which has now been activated
and is working. The two sockets B and V have a cable running between them,
but this has been disconnected at the V socket by the Virgin bloke, and he's
connected 2 Virgin wires inside the box. Basically, it was all BT at some
point, but Virgin appropriated this BT socket for their own line which comes
through the wall from outside.

Now I'm trying to rewire socket V to get rid of Virgin phone line and
connect this socket via the existing cabling to the working BT socket, but
obviously the insides of the boxes are different, and I don't know how many
wires I need to connect, and which ones. It only has 2 wires connected at
present to the terminal with 3 connectors; (the Virgin line is a white wire
with green dashes and a green wire with white dashes with the middle one
empty), but trying the same 2 colours from the BT line doesn't work. The
sockets are different so even the terminal numbers don't correspond.

Does anyone know what goes where, or can point me in the direction of a
guide please? All I know is that it *used* to work fine until Virgin came
along and buggered with it.

Mentalguy2k8 wrote:
We've switched phone from Virgin to Sky/BT, we've got socket V (Virgin)
in living room, which works & connects to the extension upstairs plus a
second socket B (BT) at the opposite end of the room which has now been
activated and is working. The two sockets B and V have a cable running
between them, but this has been disconnected at the V socket by the
Virgin bloke, and he's connected 2 Virgin wires inside the box.
Basically, it was all BT at some point, but Virgin appropriated this BT
socket for their own line which comes through the wall from outside.

Now I'm trying to rewire socket V to get rid of Virgin phone line and
connect this socket via the existing cabling to the working BT socket,
but obviously the insides of the boxes are different, and I don't know
how many wires I need to connect, and which ones. It only has 2 wires
connected at present to the terminal with 3 connectors; (the Virgin line
is a white wire with green dashes and a green wire with white dashes
with the middle one empty), but trying the same 2 colours from the BT
line doesn't work. The sockets are different so even the terminal
numbers don't correspond.

Does anyone know what goes where, or can point me in the direction of a
guide please? All I know is that it *used* to work fine until Virgin
came along and buggered with it.


Call Virgin and tell them you're not paying their bill until they
correct the fault their workman caused?

There'll be a BT expert along shortly, no doubt.

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Tciao for Now!

John.

On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:54:28 +0100, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

Does anyone know what goes where, or can point me in the direction of a
guide please? All I know is that it *used* to work fine until Virgin
came along and buggered with it.

Virgin buggered it, Virgin fix it...

At guess remove the white/green Virgain pair and try the white/blue
pair pair from the working BT socket into the same connection points.

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Cheers
Dave.

"John Williamson" wrote in message
...
Mentalguy2k8 wrote:
We've switched phone from Virgin to Sky/BT, we've got socket V (Virgin)
in living room, which works & connects to the extension upstairs plus a
second socket B (BT) at the opposite end of the room which has now been
activated and is working. The two sockets B and V have a cable running
between them, but this has been disconnected at the V socket by the
Virgin bloke, and he's connected 2 Virgin wires inside the box.
Basically, it was all BT at some point, but Virgin appropriated this BT
socket for their own line which comes through the wall from outside.

Now I'm trying to rewire socket V to get rid of Virgin phone line and
connect this socket via the existing cabling to the working BT socket,
but obviously the insides of the boxes are different, and I don't know
how many wires I need to connect, and which ones. It only has 2 wires
connected at present to the terminal with 3 connectors; (the Virgin line
is a white wire with green dashes and a green wire with white dashes with
the middle one empty), but trying the same 2 colours from the BT line
doesn't work. The sockets are different so even the terminal numbers
don't correspond.

Does anyone know what goes where, or can point me in the direction of a
guide please? All I know is that it *used* to work fine until Virgin came
along and buggered with it.


Call Virgin and tell them you're not paying their bill until they correct
the fault their workman caused?

The Virgin socket was working fine, but now we've switched back to BT and
want to put it back the way it was, with the Virgin socket connected
straight to the BT one so they both work on BT. The Virgin bloke did what we
asked, which was to install Virgin onto that particular socket, but he
disconnected the BT one from it and now I can't re-connect them without
knowing what was where.

I will probably call a BT engineer but I thought it would be a
straightforward job. Never is though, is it?

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
ll.co.uk...
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:54:28 +0100, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

Does anyone know what goes where, or can point me in the direction of a
guide please? All I know is that it *used* to work fine until Virgin
came along and buggered with it.

Virgin buggered it, Virgin fix it...

At guess remove the white/green Virgain pair and try the white/blue
pair pair from the working BT socket into the same connection points.

See previous reply, Virgin just took the BT wires out and put their own in,
I'm not accusing them of "breaking" it as such.... all the old cabling is
still inside the socket, just not connected to anything.

I'll try those wires and see what happens, thanks!

On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:16:29 +0100, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
ll.co.uk...
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:54:28 +0100, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

Does anyone know what goes where, or can point me in the direction of a
guide please? All I know is that it *used* to work fine until Virgin
came along and buggered with it.

Virgin buggered it, Virgin fix it...

At guess remove the white/green Virgain pair and try the white/blue
pair pair from the working BT socket into the same connection points.

See previous reply, Virgin just took the BT wires out and put their own in,
I'm not accusing them of "breaking" it as such.... all the old cabling is
still inside the socket, just not connected to anything.

I'll try those wires and see what happens, thanks!

Is this what you're after?
http://www.britishtelephones.com/wir...cketwiring.htm
--
Jim S
Tyneside UK
www.jimscott.co.uk

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
ll.co.uk...
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:54:28 +0100, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

Does anyone know what goes where, or can point me in the direction of a
guide please? All I know is that it *used* to work fine until Virgin
came along and buggered with it.

Virgin buggered it, Virgin fix it...

At guess remove the white/green Virgain pair and try the white/blue
pair pair from the working BT socket into the same connection points.

Worked like a charm, you're a lifesaver! Thanks very much indeed

In message , Jim S
writes
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:16:29 +0100, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
ll.co.uk...
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 13:54:28 +0100, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

Does anyone know what goes where, or can point me in the direction of a
guide please? All I know is that it *used* to work fine until Virgin
came along and buggered with it.

Virgin buggered it, Virgin fix it...

At guess remove the white/green Virgain pair and try the white/blue
pair pair from the working BT socket into the same connection points.

See previous reply, Virgin just took the BT wires out and put their own in,
I'm not accusing them of "breaking" it as such.... all the old cabling is
still inside the socket, just not connected to anything.

I'll try those wires and see what happens, thanks!

Is this what you're after?
http://www.britishtelephones.com/wir...cketwiring.htm

Also useful:
http://www.wppltd.demon.co.uk/WPP/Wiring/UK_telephone/uk_telephone.html
Note that, with modern phones, the only two wires which are needed are 2
and 5. 3, the ring wire, can normally be left disconnected. 4 doesn't do
anything.
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Ian