Where can I buy a flippin phone lead!!

[Jerem,y Garrard]

Hi all,

Can someone help me before I go mad!?

I'm after a standard RJ11 - BT plug phone lead.

I've bought several in the past from Homebase (we have house rabbits that tend to eat leads for breakfast). These have all worked fine. They were silver in colour.

I have now purchased 3 new leads from different branches of homebase. They are now white in colour. They also do silver ones, but these are marked as modem leads, so I presume the pins are crossed. All 3 leads do not work either on my phone, or and others I've tried (even in someone else's house).

Am I going nuts? Have Homebase changed the pin outs? Is it a faulty batch? When I took them back the girl I spoke to didn't have a clue.

So, I gave up on Homebase and have searched EVERYWHERE for a simple flipping phone lead! No-one does them! Extension leads, no problem. Modem leads by the tonne. But nowhere does a phone lead! Even BT's website (unless I'm going blind). Is there a conspiricy? Do BT have a monopoly arrangement with Homebase? Have aliens stolen all the phone leads?

I may just give up and by the bits from Maplin and make up my own, but it's a lot of hastle just for a lead. Has anyone else had these problems?

Cheers, Jeremy

[Robert Maskill]

Our local Tesco Store stocks them...

[Andy Hall]

They do a nice line in rather tasty rabbits as well...... :-)

.andy

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[Rupert]

CPC

[Alan J. Flavell]

Ah, but +which+ standard?

[Tone-EQ]

Is there a Comet near you? They sell Belkin branded cables.

[Owain]

"Tone-EQ" wrote | Is there a Comet near you? They sell Belkin branded cables.

"ten times faster than ordinary phone cables" :-)

Owain

[Andy Dingley]

My local petshop does them.

[geoff]

In message , "Jerem,y Garrard" writes

CPC sell them

[Ian]

I can supply ready made and Bespoke leads

I assume you want a straight through lead 2-2 3-3 4-4 5-5 ? not a mod= em one which has 3&4 of the rj11 to 2&5 of the BT plug

3M lead would be 2.95 UKP + 42p P&P

Payment can be by cheque cash or CC via paypal

Ian Plain

[tHatDudeUK]

Given the chance many pets do them too, no wonder they sell them there.

[Jerem,y Garrard]

Ah, now that's exactly what I was wondering. Whether there were different standards and the homebase lines now use some other standard?

I far as I was aware there were just straight through ones for phones, and modem ones has the two sets of pins crossed. Are there more?

Thanks, Jeremy

[poster]

often helps.

A search of the group uk.telecom for "modem cable wiring" got more details. From a post by Jeff Taylor, in late January 2004:

"Modem leads are nearly always one of two types - they either connect pins 2 & 5 of the BT plug to the centre pins of the RJ11 or to the outer pins of the RJ11: obviously if you use one variety of lead on a modem designed for the other there will be no connection to the modem."

[Stickems]

Woolworths

[blah]

Have a look at

[T i m]

I've just leant a mate a lead I got from B+Q as the one that *came* with his laptop was the wrong pinout ..?

All the best ..

T i m

[Lurch]

On Thu, 06 May 2004 15:39:17 +0100, in uk.d-i-y T i m strung together this:

You mean the phone wiring in his house is backwards!

[geoff]

In message , blah writes

I bought a couple of extension cables from CPC today

10metres was just over 2 quid (from one of their flyers)

They have various configurations which cover most requirements