On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:03:54 +0100, "Jik Ronson"
<booooiiing@bounce.com> wrote:

>
>"Charlie Pearce" <charlie.pearce@eidosnet.NO-SPOO-PLEASE.co.uk> wrote in
>message news:3f082fc5.404945@news.eidosnet.co.uk...
>> Quick question for the experts in the group about my slightly
>1) No Expert - just work for em>>>
>"put in, he pointed out that I could easily do this myself by
>simply connecting the green and black wires from the ISDN socket upstairs to
>pins 2 and 5 of the socket he'd removed from the lounge."
>
>Strictly speaking this is not Kosha. He's backended the feed for you. I
>imagine he's star wired it off at some point. Whilst no doubt it will work
>the ring signal is missing (terminal 3). However with many of the cordless
>and dect phones not relying on the bell wire it may go unmissed (or the
>extension could be a master socket with its own ring components)

Ah, well I'm pretty sure the socket is the "old" master socket
(downstairs now has the new style with fixed top panel), so has the
ring capacitor and surge protector jobbies...

>At the end of the day the green/black has been stared in somewhere in line
>of route - it's against BT rules - but hell, so is getting out of a van
>without a hi-vis jacket.
>
>At some point you will find the green/black connected accross the
>Orange/White.

OK, that makes sense, though I won't go looking too hard ;-)

Charlie

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