telephone wiring

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I work as a low voltage technician. If you know where the dial tone at the interface is it shouldn't be too bad. Your dial tone comes in on 1 pair, 2 wires. You need to connect those 2 wires to the center wires of all of your jacks. If you take apart a phone jack, you will see that there are certain colors that are terminated in certain spots. Look into the the front of the jack and find the center 2 pins. These are what run your anolog phone. If possible trace which wires are connected to the center two pins by turning the face plate around if it is one solid unit. Note the color and see if you can find it at the interface. If the jack can be removed from the face plate, then find the white/blue slots and these are your center pins. Again trace the colors back to the interface. Once you think you know what wires go to your jacks, you can connect them by using UR2 connectors. Any electrical distrubutor should stock them. Menards might even. Then put one wire from each of the pairs that go to your jacks with one wire in the interface. Then do the same with the other wire. Polarity won't matter, or the easier thing might be to tell you provider that you phones aren't working and you didn't do it and your not going to pay for it.