Any BT Engineers here? Or Phone socket wizards! :)

[Pulsedriver]

Hey folks;

I am having SKY HD installed in 3 weeks, however, we have a dilemma;

I am moving rooms, and the room I am moving to does not have a phone socket in.
I thought sky will put a phone socket in, but after speaking to their sales team, they don't!

I called BT who wanted a ridiculous amount of money to fit an extra socket.

Is it easy to add a new socket ourselves? I've changed a faceplate to an ADSL one in my old room which eliminated the need to have filters on our phone connections, and I remember messing with phone wires then... Didn't seem too hard, not easy, but not hard.

It is impossible to run an extension from my current room to my new room, that is for certain (unless I run a wire up the wall, drop it down from the loft into the new room... But not sure about that as i'd prefer my ADSL router to be in the new room, as I like wired ethernet for my PC not wireless.

Any ideas on a solution?

I was thinking instead of touching the socket in my current room, as the phone box thing is outside the house on the wall, it's actually not far from the new room, I could run a cable up the house neatly, and into the same hole the sky installer can put the cables through to the room.

If it's 3 cables, then it sounds easy, i'll prob buy another decent faceplate and install it in the new room, although maybe not, as it won't be a master socket...!

Is it easy to connect the cable from the outside phone box? Is it just standard telephone cable?

For example, would this be all I need;

1 x Telephone socket (NTE5? or similar)

Telephone cable ;
(15M or so)

I am assuming it's an 'extension' rather than adding a master socket?

I will then just have to put the convertor/filter on the router plug to make it fit into the normal BT socket...?

 

[brendy]

Not exactly what youre after but I last week, moved my master socket by some 8 feet due to where it came in through the wall from the external cable to the roof interfering with my new closet loo build downstairs.
The external cable runs red/black which then scotch locks (I know, crap, even for bt!) onto the two wires which power the phone line. Instead of using more phone cable, I replaced the existing wire outside and drilled a new 12mm hole exactly where I wanted it at the location of the new faceplate instead of using more cable inside, if thats possible Id try that instead.

 

[tolien]

The thing outside isn't your master socket (which is the NTE) - the box you put the filtered faceplate on probably is.
It's not allowed to fiddle with anything behind the master socket, or the socket itself.

 

[Pulsedriver]

I see, so what one do I need to plug the wire in to extend to another room? The downstairs box?

Do you think it would be easier to run a cable from the master socket in my old room, up the wall into the loft and just dropped down into the new room?

 

[dan653]

dont even bother adding an extra socket, especially since you have a landline elsewhere in the house, my mate has had sky+ since just before xmas he doesnt have a landline of any form and we havent had ours plugged in to a phone socket for years

at worst they'll just send you a letter asking you to plug it in, in which case just buy an rj11 extender cable and plug it in for a few days

 

[errata]

I see, so what one do I need to plug the wire in to extend to another room? The downstairs box?

Do you think it would be easier to run a cable from the master socket in my old room, up the wall into the loft and just dropped down into the new room?

Yes for the sky box if your bothered.

Also consider extra flat phone wire to run under carpets and doors or
a DECt wireless phone extender.

You could leave the adsl router where it is and use homeplug (ethernet over mains power) to give a more reliable and secure connection to the pc so the qulaity of the extension would not matter that much.