Telephone Socket

aardvaak

What is terminal 1,4 & 6 used for in a BT socket?


Obviously 2,3 & 5 are the main connections

neilmcl

1, 4 and 6 have no use in a domestic installation. The wire for pin 3, the ring wire, is also no longer used and best disconnected as it can introduce interference to your internet.

aardvaak

neilmcl wrote: »

1, 4 and 6 have no use in a domestic installation. The wire for pin 3, the ring wire, is also no longer used and best disconnected as it can introduce interference to your internet.

Are you saying I should only connect to 2 & 5?

Neil_Jones

aardvaak wrote: »

Are you saying I should only connect to 2 & 5?

You only need 2 and 5, you've only ever needed 2 and 5 at a minimum. 3 maybe for legacy installations/phones (that physically rang, ie a bell ringer inside the phone itself) but is largely depreciated with modern phones and 4 was only ever wired up to make the connection block look neat, it didn't actually do anything.

DoaM

Neil_Jones wrote: »

You only need 2 and 5, you've only ever needed 2 and 5 at a minimum. 3 maybe for legacy installations/phones (that physically rang, ie a bell ringer inside the phone itself) but is largely depreciated with modern phones and 4 was only ever wired up to make the connection block look neat, it didn't actually do anything.

Is the correct answer (for domestic installations).

Chino

Neil_Jones wrote: »

but is largely depreciated with modern phones

The word you're looking for here and elsewhere is "deprecated". Although I suspect here a more appropriate term is "not required" unless there has been some guidance from Openreach regarding its use.

Neil_Jones wrote: »

As a general rule the C++ runtimes are all the same but functionality may have been replaced, depreciated

Neil_Jones wrote: »

Now all of that being said, Disk Cleanup is actually depreciated as of v1809.

Neil_Jones wrote: »

Please don't use Internet Explorer on Windows 10, its depreciated

Neil_Jones wrote: »

Internet Explorer is still there but heavily depreciated.

Neil_Jones wrote: »

Windows 7 is depreciated for a start

Chino

DoaM wrote: »

Is the correct answer (for domestic installations).

and duplicates post #2.

neilmcl

aardvaak wrote: »

Are you saying I should only connect to 2 & 5?

Yes, that's what I said.

neilmcl

DoaM wrote: »

Is the correct answer (for domestic installations).

Which is what I said in post #2