How to rewire here?

Question

Description of wires i see: Two tiny metal plates each with another tiny plate over them, over which are
screws. In the first one is a yellow wire, the other one a red wire.
These are the only wires attached to the small plates. There are lots of
other wires coming out of white plastic wire which holds them all, but none of them
are attached to the plates : the colors of them are green, orange with small white strips,
white with small orange strips, dark green with tiny white stripes (but that one isnt coming from wall,
and black, and another small white wire.

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Intermittend adsl disconnections, line noise, please help if you know anything. All started since dad was moving wires around ages ago. Any useful help greatly greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you have the a.d.s.l. service, albeit intermittent, that suggests that the connected wires are the correct ones.
If their connections to those terminals are tight then it is probable that the problem is not in that box.

Next time you see a BT van at a house near you ask the engineer. He might advise you without you having to book a service call.

Answer 2

What you are looking at is a multicircuit telephone connection that carries ADSL. The easiest way to identify the correct connections is to use a telephone with a pair of alligator clips attached to the red and green wires of the telephone cord.

Attach one alligator clip to the yellow wire on the tiny metal plate then attach the other alligator clip to each of the other wires in turn while listening for a dial tone. When you hear a dial tone, you have identified the correct pair. Now try to dial a number, if it doesn't "break" the dial tone, reverse the clips, now it should work. Dial your own number and it should ring engaged, that will verify that you are attached to the right pair. If you have multiple lines, repeat the procedure until you have idetified all of them.

There should be a noise filter connected past the ADSL computer connection to prevent the ADSL tones from reaching your telephone handset. If you don't see one, your ADSL supplier will give them to you free.

Answer 3

You can't plug your Modem direct into the phone socket & expect it to work.

You need an ADSL MICROFILTER to seperate the Phone Line into 2 parts - one for the ADSL Modem & other for the Phone (voice) Handset.

See site below