Question about phone sockets

titaniumx3 · 13 Feb 2008 at 22:10

Hi,

I have a BT phoneline with a phone socket in one room in my house (which the telephone is attached to) but I also have another phone socket in my own room. This phone socket was used years ago for dialup 56k and I think it was used for a phoneline when I was on one of the Blueyonder broadband/tv/phoneline packages, but it seems to be deactivated now. If I attach the telephone to it, nothing happens (as expected).

My question: Is it possible to get this phonesocket connected to my current BT phoneline with the same number (i.e. a duplicate phonesocket)?

The reason is, I'd like to switch to an ADSL2 ISP (currently on virgin media) and would like the modem to be in my room. I have no idea how ADSL works and have little idea how the phoneline works either, lol.

Hence I would appreciate some help!

ns400r · 13 Feb 2008 at 22:47

You would have to run an extension from the BT socket into your room and use that. The old one will be connected to the blueyonder network via a totally separate piece of cable.

titaniumx3 · 13 Feb 2008 at 23:28

ns400r said:
You would have to run an extension from the BT socket into your room and use that. The old one will be connected to the blueyonder network via a totally separate piece of cable.

Aww damn, had a feeling that would be the case! Would running an extension cause a major slowdown in speeds? (extension would be about 20m unless I drill holes through the ceiling)

Phemo · 13 Feb 2008 at 23:57

Shouldn't be a problem using an extension as long as you use decent quality cable. Seeing as you have just the one socket, if you hook the filter up directly to the master socket and run twisted pair cable with RJ11 ends (ie. the plugs regular ADSL modem cable uses) up to your room it should be fine.