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aaliyah

I'm no electrician, just an ordinary housewife so I seek advice from the those that know....

In a moment of thoughtlessness I cut a wire coming from a telephone junction box in the window going to the telephone box (which is connected to a fiber optic router and telephone). I snipped it with cutters all the way through. I don't know why, it was 2am...I was painting and tired and it was getting in my way. Then I realized I'd just cut the main telephone wire and now I have no phone and no internet, no TV either.

I stripped back the wire and there are 6 strands.
white/orange
orange/white
green/white
white/green
white/blue
blue/white

after a bit of googling this seems to be a telephone/network cable, but all the cable I found on google have an additional brown/white white/brown. why don't I? and what kind of cable is this?

I have a lot of slack and a few hundred gel crimps so I plan to just connect them back up. will this affect my internet speed? telephone signal? Or should I just pull out the rest of the cable and replace it with new cable? (it's about 7 meters to the other side of the room)

I don't want to call BT unless I really really have to. any advice is much appreciated, thanks!
 
I'd suggest strip about 2 inches of the outer sheath from both sides of the cut then strip each wire about 12mm (half inch) then just make a straight joint twisting the white/blue on one side to the white/blue on the other side and so on until every wire is joined to to the opposite wire of the same colour.
 
You could fit one of these if you have enough slack,they require a punch down tool,any electrical wholesaler should have these and the tool required ÂŁ10 at the most for what you need and cheaper than an engineer.

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