Had a problem when I was phoning numbers I kept getting talking clock. Managed to isolate the problem to the number 0 being mistaken for a 1 by the exchange.

Removing the bell wire fixed this.

Ok, can someone help out with this please as it's driving me mad. I've been meaning to remove my bell wire to try and get a bit faster internet for some time and was told it was number 3 i had to remove, but no info i'm reading is matching up with what my phone line socket looks like - Even the FAQ about it on this website.

First of all there is no 1-6 sockets with wires coming out of them! - I removed the outer cover and i just find another cover underneath with another phone socket which is apparently a test socket - theres no wires accessible here either so it seems a bit pointless having another layer for no reason but i could see wires under the next panel through a gap in the middle, so i unscrewed and removed the next panel instead.

Now I see 4 wires not 6, and they are connected into 3 or 4 different points (hard to tell where all the wires are goiing) and screwed into place. There is no numbering system (although i did see some letters) and the colours dont match the colours they are meant to be from what i've read either. There is no orange and white striped cable. All i have is this...

1 Orange cable
1 White cable
1 Black/Navy blue cable
and 1 Green Cable

Which is the bell wire? (colour please)

I read it was an orange and white strped 1 but as i said there isn't 1 and the closest i had was orange so i cut that and the internet went down!!! - So i've had to sheath off the ends and twist the wires back together again (I hope this won't cause my speed to be reduced!!) - The phone line was connected by a BT engineer in early 2002 if this helps although i think the socket was already there so not sure what he changed exactly

Assistance appreciated

Thanks

You need the outer 2 cables connected not the inner 2. Your repair may cause speed loss.

you shouldn't be fiddling with the cable at the back of a 2 part master, the o/w b/g pairs are two incoming pairs from BT - there is no bell wire there.

The bell wire would be wired off the lower front part of the faceplate you detached, no wires = no bell wire.

Ok, thanks. I sheathed the wires that i twisted back together over with blue tack - so hopefully there wont be any loss of speed through interference etc

Really?

Impressive, perhaps you could rewire my ring main for me