that brown house

The phone company turned our phone service on yesterday, but it didn’t work. It turned out that the cable coming from the network interface box had the red/green contacts connected to the blue/light blue wires, but the cables from the wall jacks to the junction box had the red/green contacts connected to the orange/white-orange wires.

It took me about an hour to figure this out, but at least it works now. Sometimes it’s a liability that all my phone wiring experience is with ancient rotary dial phones instead of something that uses modern conventions.