Moved house, no broadband connection

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Just moved house and waited the 10 days or so for broadband to be activated, and got the text this morning saying were active.

The house has 3 phone sockets, 2 with BT logos on. I have a hunch which of these two is the master, but I've tried all 3 sockets regardless (all single socket so using my own microfilter) and no 'internet' from any of them.

The property used to be in 2 parts, let's called them A and B. They were combined somewhere around 5-10 years ago (so master sockets look probably older than that). They are now named the same as A was. Both of the master looking sockets are in the part that used to be called B. And given my house name is now A, is there a chance that open reach have activated A, whereas the old master to A now doesn't exist? Sky aren't able to tell me if they can activate something for property B.

I've talked this through with Sky on the phone and they've booked an openreach engineer for Monday, but I really want to have this fixed before then if I can, so any idea would be great.
 
Unfortunately my landline phone isn't charging properly so can't test that. Just tried the test socket and no joy there.
 
Unfortunately my landline phone isn't charging properly so can't test that. Just tried the test socket and no joy there.

Have you tried removing the panel and ensuring that both wires are terminated properly? Likely the first thing OR will do.
 
Sky most likely have put you on SOGEA anyway so there's no dial tone to find
I did recall them mentioning this over the phone the other week, is there any way for me to find out if I am or not without calling them?
 
If the instructions they give you tell you to plug your phone into the back of the router then you're on SOGEA
 
Openreach finally came today, turned out some of the wiring was faulty on the outside of my house (so their responsibility), all fixed now.

Very impressed with the reach of the sky broadband hub, but will still need to expand the wifi reach a bit.
 
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