First off, let me say that my landlord isn't going to fix this (that's not the arrangement I'm in) I have to do it myself - so don't say, call your landlord.I moved into an older apartment in California and there isn't a standard wall plate to connect an RJ11 jack into. I have a single cable that comes about 6 inches out of the wall and then fans out to six or seven smaller wires. The smaller wires are muti-colored, some of them are striped (candy cane looking).What I think happened is, there used to be a hardwired phone there, that's been removed. How do I put a RJ11 connector on those wires, and what's the pin-outs? Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of?I'm not going to put a phone there, I'm just getting it setup for DSL.
when you get a jack, you need to connect blue to red, and blue/white to green.
When you purchase a connector, the terminal will be color-coded. Connect the wires to the same colors on the terminal (red and green are teh two important ones for a primary line). The frist two should be all you need, but it doesn't hurt to connect others. There are jacks that are faceplates tht are flush with the wall, but there are also 'boxes' that generally sit along the baseboards. If you use one of these and coerce the extra thicker wire back into the wall (there should be plenty of space), you can leave it looking nice and clean.
