One of the most common telephone cables is called the coaxial cable.
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After mid century coaxial cable came into use with amplifiers.
Late in the century all used optical fiber and most now use optical amplifiers.
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The way of twisting and so on.
Repairmen in fact refer to the wires in terms of pairs so technically a standard four wire telephone line has two pairs.
A telephone cable comprises a large up to 3 600 and more number of pairs of insulated copper conductors having diameters from 0 3 to 0 9 mm that are twisted into groups of two two pair stranding or four four pair stranding.
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This results from the past in the thickness indicated.
So you shouldn t have any problems using either type.
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These are mainly used for landline telephones epbx purpose.
The old wiring scheme was as follows connector 2 blue with white rings connector 3 orange with white rings connector 5 white with blue rings this has now changed to connector 2 blue connector 3 brown connector 5 orange the ring wire or bell wire.
Phone cable tends to have definite stripes whereas i ve seen cat5 6 cable that looks exactly the same or has dots of colour or little rings every few mm.
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Bt openreach are using new cables with new colour codes.
In a typical home the telephone cables connecting your phones within you home contain four wires.
Red green yellow and black.
It is called coaxial because it has one physical channel which is an insulated layer that is a woven shield of copper.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries each cable was a single wire.
They are used in pairs for each phone line you have.
This inner layer carries the signal and is surrounded by another physical channel that is created out of a plastic sheath.
But the basic colours used and gauge of wire are pretty much the same.
So the wire diameter the wire distance to each other the insulation thickness and type.
Rj11 rj12 and rj45 telephone cables up to 100 feet long.
Your only clue might be the way the wires are coloured.
This latter may be wired as per the rj11 standard with pins 3 and 4 or it may be wired with pins 2 and 5 as a straight through cable from the bt plug which uses pins 2 and 5 for the line unlike rj11 which uses pins 3 and 4.
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