Line 1 (primary phone line): blue wire to red terminal; white-with-blue-stripe wire to green terminal. Line 2 (secondary line): orange wire to yellow terminal; white-with-orange-stripe wire to black terminal.

How do you hook up a telephone jack?

Installing Single or First Phone Lines Remove the front cover. The inside of the connector is wired to four terminal screws. The wires should be red, green, black, and yellow. Connect your hot phone wires (red and green) to the terminals with the red and green wires.

What are the black and yellow phone wires for?

To save money, the outer two are omitted. When you bring a second phone line into the house, this new line uses the yellow and black wires. If you have a two-line phone, then the phone is normally ready to accept the second line automatically on the yellow and black wires.

What is an RJ45 jack?

The eight-pin RJ45 connector is a standardised interface which often connects a computer to a local area network (LAN). This type of connector was originally developed for telephone communications but is now used in a range of applications. The abbreviation, RJ45, stands for Registered Jack-45.

Can any phone jack be used for DSL?

So the quite frequent answer is, yes it does. One can easily plug their wireless router in the back of their phones jack for establishing an internet connection. Although, only specified modems are used for this. Those modems are mainly DSL-oriented and are called DSL modems.

What color wires does DSL use?

The DSL telephone service travels on a pair of cables that are traditionally purple and green. The DSL Internet service typically utilizes orange and white wires for CAT5 wiring. Older wiring for the DSL Internet service may be yellow and black.