the blue/white and white/blue are spliced together into the H and S leads and the orange/wht and wht/orange are also spliced to them in a 3 way with the clear/reddish connectors. is this right?

the big lead G is ground and feed wires together? and it goes behind the box and comes out of the S wire to the front and is spliced to the H wire that goes back behind the plate and into the house? huh?

i do not have phone service now. i only want dsl service. so i could just use the blue/wht and white/blue and feed that into a new single run to the inside of house to the modem?

The big solid wire is purely for the grounding of the lighting arrestor. It has no bearing on the signals (voice or phone) at all.

You DSL comes in on what of the pairs My guess is white/blue-blue/white is the pair (that's the first pair officially (pairs are WHITE, ORANGE, GREEN, BROWN in that order).

If you have RED/GREEN/BLACK/YELLOW pairing, you use the RED/GREEN to connect to it as this will be on the right positions on the 4-pin phone jack for the voice and DSL. Black/yellow would be the second pair.

Lots of questions - but I'm not sure what you are asking! Do you want to know which wires comes from the "street"? I'm not sure how we could tell from those photos - none of those looks like aerial or underground cables. Have you tried putting a meter on the two terminals to see if there is any voltage on them?

funny. tech was at house on monday. i have old nib. said buried service is fine for 10mbs.

on tuesday he came back and installed new nib and put feed cable into pvc to ground

i see the wht/red goes to modular connector and wht/blu exits. we only have dsl service and no phone service now. the looped gray wire goes to the old nib as i have not removed it and run a new cable to our modem yet. i am paying for 20mbs service but i am only getting 10mbs. can i use what i have to make it a bonded wire setup and get 20mbs?

I think what you have here (shade makes it difficult to see) is an orange-white/white-orange coming in and a blue-white/white-blue coming out.

What does 'bonded wire' mean?

FYI: DSL only (no dial tone) is sometimes called a 'dry line'. No battery voltage.

bonded is twin lead? or using 2 pair for dsl so you have 2x capacity. a few threads online about the process. you need a modem that has 2 inputs? or similar. my modem is technicolor ct1100 and they have a ct2000 that is enabled for that. i dont think i "need" 2 feed cables as the single multipair feed cable would work? i think a tech might have to do the hookup at the street box?

wish i knew techs name so i could have him stop back a 3rd time. we never talked about bonded service so he may have said ya, it will work fine on my feed cable but i may/may not have the right modem?

I'm not really familiar with DSL bonding. But it looks like your service is on the white/orange pair and you have another, unused white/blue pair. Not sure why they couldn't provide bonded service over both pairs.

Why are you paying for 20mbps when you only have 10?

the sales person sold me 20mbs service for xx dollars. they do not really know what my location will actually allow. they go by what the system tells them. they tell me that bonded or dual line service could double my speed. if i get 10 now, i could end up with 20. if i start with 20 i could get 40. i think i can use my multipair feed line from street for bonded service. but i need a bonded pair capable modem. i have a ct1100 tecnicolor model which is not. they do have a ct2000 which is bonded pair capable.

Do they provide the modem? Or are they telling you that you have to buy a different modem? Do they charge more for "dual line service"?

CenturyLink? What a bunch of clowns. You'd be lucky to get anything to work. Yes, you need one one of the supported bonded pair routers (the Technicolor or the Actiontech or a few others they have listed on their site). Even these may be problematic. I couldn't get the actiontec to work reliably until I rattled cages with an FCC complaint and finally got someone who could figure it out (Actiontec won't talk to you as these are OEM'd only to CenturyLink).

i have a 15 count email from centurylink sales person now. she said i could pay for a service call to hookup a bonded pair install. new cable from street? sorta said that. switch my leased modem for a bonded modem? didnt really say if there would be a fee for that. i have to lease modem for 1 month. than i can stop and get my own bonded modem. and than what? can i use my street fed cable? pic has poor lighting. hard to see the 2 loose wires tech left in new box that are unused. so i have more than 1 pair available now? maybe i have 2 pairs already?

Again lots of questions - but I'm not sure what you are asking!

• she said i could pay for a service call to hookup a bonded pair install.

Isn't that the answer?

Do I already have 2pair here? Tech does not need to install a new line?

• Do I already have 2pair here?

Yes - it looks like you have two pair - one pair is not connected.

• Tech does not need to install a new line?

That's not a question... but yes, the tech needs to install the new line.

Most homes already have 2 pairs from the street if not more. Your inside wiring looked as if you had maybe 4 if they go all around the house.

Don't they charge double for 2 lines?

i have not really pursued the issue. dsl works at 10mbs. would 20mbs make my life better or solve a problem? i dont think i have a problem. my modem is not bonded capable. i could buy one for 50 on cl. than what? i think the service call is not to install new line but to make the connection at the street so data is transmitted on 2 pair? not 1?

I found the bonded pair 20MB service to be a world better but it still sucks. Century link still only provides 760K uplink or so which even doubled won't allow some things like Ring doorbells to work properly. I miss my fiberoptic network connection. I'd kill even for cable.

Well, they'll need to make sure that the 2nd pair is connected a that box in your picture, and that it is connected at your wall receptacle. Then to the modem, which I suppose they will bring to you (?).

20mbs gets you up to doing 4k streaming. Almost.

"i could buy one for 50 on cl. than what?"

Then what? Then you might have wasted $50. (Or did you mean 50 cents? You didn't specify units.)

Your situation may be different, but I have DSL here, and I can't just buy a modem on Craigslist or Ebay. The modem's firmware is (the supplier tells me) programmed with a key that's unique to my account. A modem supplied by someone else won't have that key, and thus won't connect, or so they say.

DavidR, in most cases, you can bring your own compatible modem and your ISP can add it under your account assuming they allow that.

I've had DSL from a number of providers over the years and I've never found a "locked" modem as you describe. Never heard of it either. However, not all DSL is the same, so you need to have a modem that is set up (or can be set up) to work with whatever service you are using. Of course, getting it from the ISP isn't any guarantee. I ran over a balky problem for over a year with Century Link before I filed a consumer complaint and they finally found someone with clue that could give me a workaround for a firmware bug in the modem.

i guess tech came back on 2nd day and installed new box. the plan is to run a new cable from box into house directly to modem. when i get around to it. so, 1 pair is working now. is 2nd pair functional? dont know. no i dont pay for 2 lines.

The bonded pair routers I've seen will all have two "phone wire" connections to them and two "DSL" indicator lights that will both need to light up solid green to show you have both pairs up.

• the plan is to
  run a new cable from box into house directly to modem. when i get around
  to it.
• no
  i dont pay for 2 lines.

Why would you run a new cable for a service that you aren't paying for??? Is this whole thread about how to get service that you don't want to pay for?