Phone Jack wiring

[lance-tek]

I just moved to a new apt and the maintenance man did a poor job on the phone wiring.

I have little experience with phone wiring and I have only had DSL for a few days. In the past I have always had cable.

Please help me get the wires connected correctly so I can quit running a 50' phone line across my place.

I have as best I can tell 6 pair of wires

blue blue/white
orange orange/white
green green/white
grey grey/white
red/blue blue/red
brown/white white/brown

the jack they put in has 4 connections with 4 diff colored wires

green
black
yellow
red

there are only 4 connections to attach the wires from the wall to the phone jack they put in. currently they only have the blue and blue/white connected to the jack from the wall

the wires that are connected from the wall are blue/white to the red on the jack and the blue from the wall to the green on the jack.

Any suggestions?

I appreciate the help

-lance

[lance-tek]

I forgot to mention that currently there is no dial tone.

In case it matters for any reason my Phone and DSL are through SBC

[mccoffee]

in read 1st there is a link that saids dsl rewirring check that out or goto cablenut and or speedguide look for a man called dannjr

[blebs]

Look about 3/4 down the page:

http://www.la-cable.com/telephone_technical.htm

[DaveM]

The Blue and Blue w/ White wire pair is your first phone line. And it does need to be wired to the red and green (the center two pins) on the wall jack.

There is nothing more to do with it.
If you had a second line you would have the Orange pair wired to yellow and black or the same jack dual phone connection or to a second phone jack you would have the orange pair connected to red and green and lable that outlet Line 2.

There always is a possibility that you have damaged wires or wires that have terrible interference conducted into it by following parallel alongside power wiring behind the wall.

Keep asking others for help, but know the actual outlet is wired just fine.