Help - master socket/extension fiasco following house move

[Alpherah]

Hi guys. My experience of phone/network cabling is restricted to installing a phone extension - nothing to complex.

Me and the partner have just moved house and we're having a bit of a nightmare getting the wiring right for our infinity connection.

The master socket is in the hallway (no power outlets) - there's no extension into the living room.

The previous occupiers removed an extension into the living room as it stopped working - I tried to sort it but it just won't work so I expect there is an issue with the extension wiring points in the master socket.
The existing master socket is a single telephone point openreach socket typical of an ADSL install.

BT have suggested that in order to get infinity working we need a new phone/Vdsl master socket and that the router must connect into this - not via any extensions - leaving us with a huge cable exposed from the hallway to the router.

- A friend suggests buying one of these master sockets , placing it in the living room, and connecting it to the existing master via gel crimps on the A/B connections.

Isn't there a better way ? BT want £140 to even look at the master socket as it works for everything except extension wiring.

What should I do? Thanks

 

[ov_sjo]

How does the cable come into the house? Is it underground or from a pole? It may be worth slipping a local openreach engineer a drink or two to re-wire it from the pole or nearest junction box on the house.

Otherwise I would try and hook up the modem/router to the current master socket.


Which type of socket do you have?

 

[Alpherah]

Hi it comes down a pole. It's the 85mm one.

I've found a guide online to wire in a normal phone extension into the new 2 socket Vdsl faceplate and use a phone to rj11 cable to connect the router. Seems like this might be a good solution? Although I will need to replace the current master socket with a new one

 

[thenewoc]

If you still have the extension wiring at the master socket and that cable isn't damaged anywhere along its' length to the extension socket, then you could put a vdsl filter plate on the master socket and that will give you an internal filtered connection point that you can punch the extension cable down on to. The extension socket would then become a dsl only socket for the router or modem to connect to.

This explains it all, the vdsl faceplates are a bit different now as they have a specific set of punch downs for adding a dsl extension but the principle is the same in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGDAAcpqm9Y