Figureing the wiring on ATT Uverse

[cuffs054]

Im so far over my head with this I feel even shorter than I am!
Right now I have a Uverse jack that ATT installed and it works fine.
I want to move the confuser and will need new jack.
Being old I remember when everything was color coded, no more!
I can easily identify the two wires coming from DBox to the wall jack. The issue is the actual POSITIONING OF THE WIRES TO THE JACK. The current jack has a number system "sort of". It looks like position 4/5 is hot in the current jack. New jack is NOT numbered and uses standard color postions.
Soooooooo, the question is: how do I identfy what contacts on the male part of the jack correspond with the female contacts on the new jack? Did that make sense?
Maybe this will help. Incoming wire pair is green and white/green stripe. It appears to go into 4/5 on the female part of current jack. New jack has 8 wire postions but NO numbers and the color don't even come close. So can I just count the contact positions on the new jack from left to right, hook any pair of wires to the 4/5 and then use the other cable end (with matching colors) to tap into Gateway as the current wires are?
I will be deeply greatful for any suggestions.

 

[iej]

As far as I'm aware AT&T U Verse is VDSL / VDSL2, we've very similar products here.

The main thing to be aware of is that VDSL is much fussier about any noise on the line or problems than ADSL is.

Be very careful that if you are moving the modem that you use high quality twisted pair cable like CAT5e or CAT6. Do not use straight telephone wire that isn't twisted as you will introduce line noise. VDSL uses a much wider range of frequencies than voice or even ADSL, and basically what happens is non-twisted pair will pick up interference from all sorts of sources.

With regard to the positions on RJ plugs:

http://wiki.robotz.com/images/2/26/Wiki_telephony01.jpg

The VDSL modem would only use the centre two contacts on the jack, unless you've got pair-bonding setup which would use 2 pairs, in which case I'm not sure which would be the second pair but normally it would be the next pair out

 

[mattl]

Not too sure what you are talking about - is it just the phone outlet?  You want to move the modem to a new location correct?  Do you have Uverse TV service or just internet?  The phone line it comes in is just a standard phone line, use a standard phone outlet to connect to the modem.  They might have run CAT5, if that's the case use CAT5 to the new location too, helps with noise.

 

[cuffs054]

Matt, I already have Uverse. I want to move confuser to new location. Current UV jack has only two wires connected. While I can identify the wire color I can't identify which contact in the current jack corresponds to the new jack.

 

[jeffg]

If you haven't already, try "uverse jack diagram" in Google. The first several links (mostly forum discussions) looked promising.

 

[cuffs054]

Jeff, thanks, been there done that. Its like to seperate designs. The current jack seems easy to understand. The new jack seems easy to understand but they don't seem to mesh!

 

[mattl]

Pictures or links would help...

 

Are you talking about the punch down type vs. the old style screw type?