Master Socket Question.

[slipd]

Hey guys,

A friend has just bought a bungalow and the BT master socket comes in at the bedroom. They'd ideally like the socket/their router in the lounge. The wiring is good (6 month old build) so isn't it possible to "move" the master socket, using the existing wiring, onto the lounge socket? He's taken the filtered Openreach faceplate from his last property

I'm sure a visiting BT engineer told me this once, I was in a similar situation with property - the MS was in the roof!

Any guides/links out there?

Thanks.

 

[slipd]

Absolutely, it was a BT engineer that told me... The ethics of it, he can live with

From memory it was just a case of using the A/B wires on the extension cabling and then terminating them at your chosen end point. The socket in the lounge will be a filtered Openreach one. At the moment it just serves as an extension from the master.

 

[slipd]

True, but he wouldn't be able to use a filtered face plate would he? The main objective being, he (well his bird) doesn't want microfilters hanging out of all the other sockets...

 

[slipd]

You know that you only filter the sockets that actually have phones plugged in? With a decent set of DECT phones and that's only one socket in use (possibly two if Sky still needs to be plugged in).

I do, yes. There would be other phones plugged in so dangley filters are definitely a no

Right, so looking at:

Where are you saying we should wire the lounge extension up to? I'm guessing this would mean getting a dedicated rj11 faceplate then for the lounge?

Thanks for your help!

 

[slipd]

Replace the existing master with the filtered one, all extensions would then be filtered.

Just put the router in the bedroom.

Ha, the router in the bedroom? You've not met his missus mate

But yeah, under "normal" circumstances, that would be ideal.