What are the 8 wires coming into an existing phone jack used for?

Question

I am replacing and existing broken phone jack with a new one and cannot figure what each wire is for and whether or not I need all of them. The colors are as follows: red, black, yellow, green, (2)blue, and (2)orange). Thx

Answer 1

Christmas tree and bumble bee
Red and Green match up with White/Blue and Blue/White
Yellow And Black match up with White/Orange and Orange/White

Answer 2

there's no such element. A telephone cable is made up of the two 4 wires or 4 pairs based which form of cable you utilize. purely 2 wires(pink and green) are used for a million line, or a million pair while you're using 4 pair cat5 line(white and white blue). A cable jack is made up of coaxial cable that's barely one piece of copper interior the cable, the place the telephone line demands 2 copper wires.

Answer 3

you only need 2 wires if you have only one phone line.. red and green (is standard) if you have 2 lines then line 2 is yellow and black (standard) this may not be the way that your line is connected.. I have never seen telecom wire with those colors.. most old telecom wire is red, green, yellow, and black.. newer telecom wire is blue, blue/white (line 1), orange, orange/white (line 2), green, green/white (line 3) brown, brown/white (line 4) slate, slate/white (gray, line 5), and red, blue/red (line 6)

EDIT: upon looking at the question again... blue and blue/white should be the line comming from outside for line one, they connect to the green and red.. orange white should be line 2 comming from outside, and connect to yellow and black.. (i thought you were stating all the wires were inside one cable)