Reconnecting closed off home phone jack/socket

Gnomi777

Hello,
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I need to reconnect some phone jacks/sockets that BT kindly charged us £130 to close to improve the signal strength to our broadband. We've since found out that the problem was mainly with our TV but don't want to pay £130 again to have BT reconnect the sockets.

Apparently it is a relatively simple process. I've had a look at one socket which is in the lounge on the opposite wall to the media plate with the (moved) main socket, and can't see that anything is disconnected, but there is no dial tone when I plug in the home phone into it - I've tried it with the microfilter too. I've also tried what used to be our master socket in the hall, but still no tone - this one has two wires which have been disconnected and capped off. It also has something which looks like a fuse, so I'm a bit nervous to fiddle with it.
There is a third socket (slight overkill by the builders?) in the hall, appears to have all wires correctly connected, which made me think whether the other hall one needs reconnecting. Should I attempt this myself? Will I die? What could I break if I don't do it correctly?

Your answers would be greatly appreciated.

macman

All depends if it's wired as spoke and hub or as a chain. It's two wires, connect like to like at each socket. Usually orange and white to 2 and 5 respectively. If you do it wrong it won't work, that's all. The current is minimal.
Cant believe you paid BT to disconnect an extension socket. Even the most expensive handyman would do that for probably £30.

Fightsback

macman wrote: »

All depends if it's wired as spoke and hub or as a chain. It's two wires, connect like to like at each socket. Usually orange and white to 2 and 5 respectively. If you do it wrong it won't work, that's all. The current is minimal.
Cant believe you paid BT to disconnect an extension socket. Even the most expensive handyman would do that for probably £30.

Ignore that, utter tosh it's the white/blue blue/white which are the ringer/speech pair and the bell ring orange/white wire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaKTUF4UoEI

And IIRC the ring voltage is 80V peak to peak so it can give you a shock if you are holding the ring pair at the same time and someone dials in.

jb66

Fightsback wrote: »

Ignore that, utter tosh it's the white/blue blue/white which are the ringer/speech pair and the bell ring orange/white wire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaKTUF4UoEI

And IIRC the ring voltage is 80V peak to peak so it can give you a shock if you are holding the ring pair at the same time and someone dials in.

It might give you a small tingle in your fingers if someone rings but not a "shock"