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markoneswift

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#153521 29-Sep-2014 21:19
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Hi all,

I'm new here and this is my first post. I've been reading the forums for some time so I'm hopeful I'll get good advice on here :-)

I've just moved into a new house and I've got a problem with the phone jacks. All the jacks ( four in total ) are dead and if a handset is plugged in to any of them, it sounds like an echo ( an open line ?? ). I've located the main 'star' junction and hopefully a picture of this will appear below :-

20140929_191034 by markoneswift, on Flickr

From the image, you can see towards the bottom left a blue wire which appears to have been punched down at some point. Would it be a safe assumption that if I follow sequentially along the numbered slots and then punch down this wire into the next available slot, the phone 'circuit' should be complete ? The order seems to go along blue / white+blue stripe, blue, white+blue stripe etc.

Hoping someone can help, thanks in anticipation :-)

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InstallerUFB
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  #1145414 2-Oct-2014 10:20
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markoneswift:
Bung: Only 4 jacks? There appear to be 8 pairs leading out of the strip, #8 with a wire off and 1 pair at top right commoned down the strip.


Would it be fair to assume that the commoned pair could be the outside line ? How are these things usually wired ?


10pr krone blocks are not normaly used like this (but they can be) - Looking at the picture I would have to assume that the Blue/white pr that has been punched down first on tag set 1 would be the incomeing line.

I would guess that the cable feeding this strip and the one that is connected to the only working jkpt would both come from the ETP on the outside of the house -  ifyou ar confident that yu can indeitify the correct circuits and have the tools/materials to recrimp the connections you could swap them around your self  - if not bite the bullet and get your provider to get a service tech around to sort it out for you (they may even pay for it)

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