Disconnecting Ring Wire/Replacing faceplate

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Hi Guys,

Just wanted to confirm with everyone what I need to do. I have recently plugged our router into the test socket of the master socket and my sync speed has left up from around 2900kbps to 6944kbps! :O BUT doing this has meant that none of the phone extensions in the house now work, which my parents aren't happy with as they want a phone in their room in case theres a fire etc etc.

SO following on from THIS thread, I would like to know... Which faceplate to get, how to remove the ring wire and then how to install the new faceplate :)

Here is a picture of the current master socket:




heres one of the back of the socket (behind the current faceplate)



looks like only the red/orange and white wires are connected? and that black looking wire is actually blue and it is disconnected along with the green wire.


let me know if you need to see any other photos :)

cheers guys :D
 
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Leave the wiring behind the socket alone (that’s BT’s side of the master socket).

You extensions should be wired from the front terminals numbered 2 and 5. The ringer wire will be connected to terminal 3.

The extensions should be wired with a ‘pair’ of wires. Each of the three wires you currently have connected has a matching white pair (currently wrapped back around the cable). Assuming the extension wiring is twisted pair the current configuration won’t be allowing it to do its job.

If you do swap the wires then all the extension sockets will need modifying to match.

The punched down wires should also be trimmed off close to the terminals without the trailing end you can see on the existing blue wire.

Whoever installed that wiring needs a good slap!
 
kingshaun2k said:
Remove the orange wire with white stripes (ring wire) and you can just carry on using the same face plate.....
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Does look a bit of odd wiring...
Pretty sure the orange wire is connected to pin 5 and needs to stay along with the blue (hard to make out the numbers in the picture though), the greenwire looks like its connected to pin 3 and being used at the ring which would usually be ok to disconnect.
 
You should get yourself a NTE-2005 Master Faceplate and replace the faceplate with that. As bremen says, don't mess around behind the master socket, where you can see the green and black wires, as that is BT's D-side cable and you are not allowed to touch it.

The NTE-2005 faceplate will filter the ADSL singal out at that socket and only forward the phone line on to the extensions. You will have to replace the wires that in the back of the faceplate in picture 1 but it's a simple enough job.
 
bremen1874 said:
Leave the wiring behind the socket alone (that’s BT’s side of the master socket).

You extensions should be wired from the front terminals numbered 2 and 5. The ringer wire will be connected to terminal 3.

The extensions should be wired with a ‘pair’ of wires. Each of the three wires you currently have connected has a matching white pair (currently wrapped back around the cable). Assuming the extension wiring is twisted pair the current configuration won’t be allowing it to do its job.

If you do swap the wires then all the extension sockets will need modifying to match.

The punched down wires should also be trimmed off close to the terminals without the trailing end you can see on the existing blue wire.

Whoever installed that wiring needs a good slap!
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hmm, well the extensions were working when i plugged the router into the master socket and not the test socket, but as soon as i plugged it into the test socket the extensions stopped working :(

So basically what i want to be able to do is either

A) Plug the router into the master socket but be able to keep the near 7meg speeds that i get from the test socket (instead of under 3 which is what i currently get from the master socket)

OR

B) Keep the router plugged into the test socket but make it so that the extensions work aswell.

sorry if i didn't make everything clear in the original post :)

cheers :)
 
The extensions are run from the faceplate in the first picture. See the wire that the faceplate is dangling from? that is the wire for the extension/s. That's why when you removed the faceplate all the extensions no longer work as you unpluged them as the faceplate plugs into the test socket..
 
I bought and fitted a modified faceplate, hard wired a dedicated adsl extension using CAT5e, connected telephone extensions and no longer need those horrible filters on each telephone socket. Improved my sync speed no end.

Good guide here BT ADSL Adaptor Front Plate for NTE5

and here Modified ADSL Adaptor for BT NTE5

The one I bought


Hope it is ok to use these links, can't see these products on OcUK so isn't really a competitor? If not OK then please remove.
 
Strife212 said:
The faceplate is infested with spiders...
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Can it be considered an infestation when they’re all dead?

As an addendum to my earlier post…

To wire that extension (more-or-less) correctly you’d need to…

  • Trim off the trailing end from the blue/white wire at the master socket (and any other trailing ends you find).
  • Disconnect the green/white wire at the master socket (and preferably at all of the extension sockets).
  • Replace the orange/white wire with the white/blue wire at the master socket, and at all of the extension sockets.
 
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