phone jack wiring

i have an older phone jack in wich the wires became loose and disconnected .Now i don't know how to reconnect them. There are 6 wires ,and i don't know what wire goes where.
1 is blue,
1 is green,
1 is orange,
3 are white.
who can tell me what wire goes with what?
thx .

 

Best bet is to open up a similar jack and note how it is connected. There are "standard" ways of connecting jacks using these wire-pairs, but not everyone follows the standards.

My guess would be that the blue/white-blue pair (one of the whites should have a blue stripe, or at least be partly twisted around the blue wire) is what you want to use, and that you will connect the blue wire to the red on the jack, and the white-blue to the green of the jack. If you have two lines, you should also connect the orange/white-orange pair to yellow/black respectively. The green/white-green pair is probably not used in your installation.

Here's a couple of websites that should help determining what to connect where:

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

http://www.lanshack.com/wire_phone_jack.asp

 

Thx Chirkware.
Excellent it worked right away , i connected as you suggested.
Now i can use the phone jack again, thx again man, very nice.
great site, rugger

 

Glad it worked out for you. Stick around...This site is great!

 

yep... the 3 whites must have a trace on them..

w/b b/w 1st circuit
w/o o/w 2nd circuit
w/g g/w 3rd circuit