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aaliyah
I'm no electrician, just an ordinary housewife so I seek advice from the those that know....
In a moment of thoughtlessness I cut a wire coming from a telephone junction box in the window going to the telephone box (which is connected to a fiber optic router and telephone). I snipped it with cutters all the way through. I don't know why, it was 2am...I was painting and tired and it was getting in my way. Then I realized I'd just cut the main telephone wire and now I have no phone and no internet, no TV either.
I stripped back the wire and there are 6 strands.
white/orange
orange/white
green/white
white/green
white/blue
blue/white
after a bit of googling this seems to be a telephone/network cable, but all the cable I found on google have an additional brown/white white/brown. why don't I? and what kind of cable is this?
I have a lot of slack and a few hundred gel crimps so I plan to just connect them back up. will this affect my internet speed? telephone signal? Or should I just pull out the rest of the cable and replace it with new cable? (it's about 7 meters to the other side of the room)
I don't want to call BT unless I really really have to. any advice is much appreciated, thanks!
In a moment of thoughtlessness I cut a wire coming from a telephone junction box in the window going to the telephone box (which is connected to a fiber optic router and telephone). I snipped it with cutters all the way through. I don't know why, it was 2am...I was painting and tired and it was getting in my way. Then I realized I'd just cut the main telephone wire and now I have no phone and no internet, no TV either.
I stripped back the wire and there are 6 strands.
white/orange
orange/white
green/white
white/green
white/blue
blue/white
after a bit of googling this seems to be a telephone/network cable, but all the cable I found on google have an additional brown/white white/brown. why don't I? and what kind of cable is this?
I have a lot of slack and a few hundred gel crimps so I plan to just connect them back up. will this affect my internet speed? telephone signal? Or should I just pull out the rest of the cable and replace it with new cable? (it's about 7 meters to the other side of the room)
I don't want to call BT unless I really really have to. any advice is much appreciated, thanks!
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