The fact you have broadband but no dialtone might indicate that one (of the two) wires is disconnected. Re-terminate both wires at both ends. And check your colour codes again, make sure you are definitely using the same two wires at both ends

Sounds like one of the new wires is not connected. I would re-push down all of the joints etc.

The box you have used is blatantly not BT supplied, as it will look brand spanking new, & BTs junction boxes have nothing inside now, they just use jelly crimps.

No one said you'd damaged them, what they said was that you had connected them poorly, or incorrectly.

Thanks ukhardy07, you were right, there was a loose wire (certainly didn't look loose) but now dial tone and broadband working fine.

Thanks for your help
John

Thanks ukhardy07, you were right, there was a loose wire (certainly didn't look loose) but now dial tone and broadband working fine.

My first thoughts are that you have [censored] up the terminations in the junction box, any chance of another photo of your handiwork ?

Don't mention it (?!?!) A day before ukhardy's post.

Krohn tool?

Edited by Deadbeat (Thu 12-May-16 09:39:03)

That would certainly be a good way of wrecking the connectors and ensuring a bad joint. At least you (I hope deliberately) misspelt it .

Krohn and Krone are interchangeable:
http://www.solwise.co.uk/telesun_krohn-tools.htm

It's probably wrong but as it was used in college longer ago than I care to remember, I've always used the former.

I think you may find that your spelling emanates from Solwise, perhaps (now I'm guessing) as some way of getting round a patent or trademark they didn't want to pay to use.

Krone was developed in Berlin in the 1970s by The Krone Group

Link 1.

A punch down tool, also called a punchdown tool or a krone tool (named after the KRONE LSA-PLUS connector), is a small hand tool used by telecommunication and network technicians

Link 2.

Looking at the Solwise product it seems to fall into this category, from Link 2:-

For light-duty use, there are also less-expensive punch down tools with fixed blades and no impact mechanism. These low-cost tools are more time-consuming for making reliable connections, and can cause muscle fatigue when used for large numbers of connections.

Yep.... I think the IDC was originally called (In the USA anyway) a "bantam" connector. I've always used the "Krohn" spelling as that's the way the college sponsors (Ferranti) spelt it on their literature. The last one that I bought a few years ago now.... from RS I think, was a Krohn tool.
It doesn't matter anyway; as long as it doesn't look like the one in my original link!

Edited by Deadbeat (Thu 12-May-16 13:48:24)