[Gllug] ADSL on BT phone wires

[Russell Howe]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 07:04:54PM +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> Instrument polarity is entirely immaterial - the equipment is designed to be 
> polarity insensitive, and would fail approval if there was any polarity 
> sensitivity.   (I used to design telephone equipment for a living!).  
> However, it is necessary that each of the three wires used at each socket are 
> connected to the right terminals.  They made it as easy as possible - 
> terminal 2 connects to all the other terminal 2's, terminal 5 connects to all 
> terminal 5's, and the same with terminal 3.

Does that mean it matters not whether the A wire from the exchange is
wired to terminal 2 or 5, and similarly for the B wire?

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