Hi..
Thanks for your help... I am trying to replace a phone jack in my dads house (he is 94 yrs old),,, He went to Radio Shack and bought a new jack (it called a "Surface Mount Modular Jack - 1 or 2 lines - RJ11 / RJ14)..It has Yello-black-green-red wires... The problem is my dads wire coming out of the wall has 2 white - orange and blue !! I tried numerous combos and cannot get a dial tome... What do I do ?? Thank you , any help would be greatly appreciated... I always though myself a electonic wiz but this has really got me :)

Regards... Pete

Are you sure the white wires don't have have blue or orange stripes on them. If so the w/blue stripe -> green
blue -> red

w/orange -> black
orange -> yellow

or try this website

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/phone_wiring.html

Let us know how it works out.

Hi...
Thanks for the reply, I will go over there later today or tomorrow & let you know... I didn't see any stripe but I wasn't looking either... In either case now that I have the orange & blue I should be able to try the other 2 combos... This sure helps me, thanks again...

Pete

Just moved into an old house and the wore colors are:
Green w/ white stripe
White w/ green
Orange w/ white
White w/ orange.

I connected these to
red
green
yellow
black
respectively, but no success.

Do you know which color I should connect to which on the new jack?

Thanks.
Lou

They come in pairs, so try like this:
orange w/white stripe = red
white w/orange stripe = green
or
green w/white stripe = red
white with green stripe = green

One of those pairs should give you a dial tone.

The yellow & black is not normally used in home phone wiring. But you can connect the pair without a dial tone as follows:
the color w/white stripe = yellow
the white w/colored stripe = black