Telephone wiring isn’t very hard to do. Almost anyone can learn to work with telephone wiring in under an hour. In addition, telephone wiring is very safe to work with because it uses low voltages.

Inside your home, telephone wiring uses the simple RJ-11 connector. The RJ-11 connector has six positions for wires, but most often only four wires are actually present. Of those, only two wires are normally used!

The two wires are known as tip and ring. Tip uses the 4th position on the RJ-11 connector and ring uses the 3rd position. The way to count the pins is to look at an RJ-11 connector with the little tab pointed downwards.

The wire known as tip is normally green and ring is usually red. Telephone connectors come in two types: female and ... Read more »