wiring a telephone extension.

[Penfold]

Hey

I'm trying to run a telephone extension socket for my ADSL connection and am struggling so does anyone know much about doing this.

I've wired in the mast socket which looks like this



and used the IDC connectors. I've used blue & white band in slot 2, orange & white in 3, white & orange in 4 and whuite & blue in slot 5.

The extension point is the same. I've then got a filter on it connected to the phone and the router.

The phone works fine but the router doesn't - just comes up with physical line error..

is there something obvious I've missed?

TIA

PEN

[JB]

Sure your using the phone lead that came with the router?  Should be RJ11 both sides.  Only on the router side some devices use the centre pins for line(3 and 4) and some devices use pins 2 and 5.


Your not doing something silly like plugging one of these leds below into the phone side of the filter?
 

[Penfold]

Thanks JB but I managed to solve it....

I was wiring up leads no 2,3,4& 5 from the master socket to the extension socket. That meant that the fax macxhine worked. For some reason disconnecting lead 4 makes them both (fax & router) work.

Aww well - done it now after god knows how many hours - at least it saved £105 + Vat I suppose, which was what BT wanted to charge me

PEN