Placement of Master BT Socket

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Where is your master BT Telephone socket located?

I'm thinking of putting it under the stairs next to my proposed networking switch, proposed router, CCTV system unit, is this advisable or not?!
 
dont think it really matters too much. you could always run an extension from it.

e: assuming the question was - is having the socket hidden away going to cause problems with getting phones elsewhere
 
Certainly. The shorter the distance to your equipment the less prone to interference. Master socket direct to modem with the shortest cable will yield the best possible speeds and stability.

Not sure if this is relevant in the age of fibre or not but ADSL2+ and the like it certainly is.
 
If it is done properly an extra few metres won't make much difference to speeds and what not. If the run is multiple tens of metres then might be best to leave it.
 
Second floor, cable comes in over the back garden straight into the wall... Total pain as it's at the top of stairs where a router would look stupid.
 
Install it wherever you want your modem.

It's literally the only thing that "relies" on it as the first trouble shooting question you'll get when something inevitably goes wrong, and you begrudgingly make the call to your ISP, is "could you please plug your modem into your master socket".

Obviously personal preference but we ripped out all our other telephone sockets - not used or called a personal land line in about... 5 years maybe?

EDIT: Oh, missed that you said you were putting it under the stairs - yeah, good call. That's what we've done.
 
wolfie138 said:
i think the guy who did mine said it had to be the cable entry point to the house [mine is anyways].
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which can be anywhere if it's a fresh install.

ours comes from the telegraph wire where it joins the house at the gutter, then down and around the side of the house.
 
Mine's in the living room. Doesn't matter though cos I've run some Cat6 from it to my patch panel so my master socket can be any of my Ethernet ports. :o
 
My house is a new build from 2014, master socket came already installed under the stairs in our cupboard.

Works perfectly for me, nice and tidy. :)
 
My sister just moved into a new build flat where the master socket is in the master bedroom, and then there are five phone extensions (!!!) - one in the same room as the master socket, a single in the living room on the TV media plate, a double gang on the other side of the same room (!!!), and another in the secondary bedroom. I have absolutely no idea what the developers were smoking when they planned that. It feels like they had a bunch of voice modules that they had to use up or else their family would face grievous harm.
 
Ripped out original fitting. Wire from telephone pole comes about 10 meters to the guttering at front of house and I fed that cable direct into the first available room and fitted a proper filtered socket behind curtain next to window. 4 way digital phone from there and BT modem. Cat5e to my room where router and other cables are fed to house and other buildings in my property. Did this about 2007.
 
For neatness sounds great. Remember you might need to also run some stranded ethernet cable runs between the switch and some wireless access points as you'll be closing the typical all in one router solution in a cupboard. I say stranded here rather than solid so you can go from POE injector next to switch straight to your WAP's. Going the route suggested you'd be best to have something like an Edge Router Lite and then one or more separate WAP's like the Ubiquiti ones which will complement the Edge Router Lite well from having it all in the same eco system. Also might need some extra power sockets where your switch is located so you can power some POE injectors unless you have a POE capable switch.
 
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