BT Master Socket.

peter212693

peter212693

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Hi all,

Moved into my new house over the weekend and noticed there was no phone socket anywhere in the house. After some looking around I found this little mess under the stairs:

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The thick black cable is the main feed from BT to the house and the littler cable goes back out the wall and up into the loft which I cant find anywhere.

Now I know "This side of the socket" is property of BT and cannot be altered. So hypothetically speaking if a BT engineer was to wire the orange and white cables from the main feed into a BT80a junction box and then run a small length of cat5e cable to a nice new NTE5 master socket this should be common practice for them?

I could then leave the master socket and the router under the stairs and then run cat5 cable from the router?
 
I'd just do it yourself with an Openreach branded socket. The drop wire should terminate directly into the NTE5A if it's new and the IDC blades are nice and sharp.

I did this in a mates house - existing drop wire was joined up at the eaves so the cable from the join onwards was renewed with the same grade external cable, jelly crimped in a waterproof enclosure, and run through the roof space and down into a cupboard under the stairs, then terminated with a genuine NTE5. Openreach tech came out to install Infinity and didn't even bat an eyelid. I don't think they keep records of who has what socket and where it's installed.
 
Thanks guys.

I got sky to move me over with with home move service. BT are due to activate my line for telephone and FTTC on Friday and wasnt sure if they would just say its done and not visit the premises?
 
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You won't get a visit to activate a line.

If you want Openreach to change the socket then dump some water into that join box and phone up complaining about noise.
 
I did think that to be honest or my past experience with BT they will come and and tell me I need to pay for a master socket as there isnt one there and it had been removed them the previous owner renavated the property.
 
If your with sky its worth noting what MissChief said. Id ring up sky and see what they say. Frankly they should make the line right with you taking out a contract ext.

MissChief said:
To be honest if you have no master socket then I'd expect your provider to get Openreach out to install one FOC. I know we do this at Sky.
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Had pretty much the same in my flat when I moved in, was worried it was some old duff cabling but the BTOR engineer came out, tested it fine and terminated it to a new master-socket and was gone 30 mins later - job jobbed. ISP was Plusnet btw, FTTC connection running @ 70/20
 
Terrier_Jimlad said:
Had pretty much the same in my flat when I moved in, was worried it was some old duff cabling but the BTOR engineer came out, tested it fine and terminated it to a new master-socket and was gone 30 mins later - job jobbed. ISP was Plusnet btw, FTTC connection running @ 70/20
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Did they terminate straight into the master socket or use a terminal box from the main feed then into the socket?
 
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