Replacing Sky Phone Socket

Rowan88

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Hi,

I am going to be doing up my living room and I wanted to fit a fresh phone socket box for my Sky Fibre Max.

Is there a certain type of master socket I need to purchase and how easy are they to change over?

Cheers
 
Ahh, I thought it was ok to just replace the box aslong as I don't touch the backplate/wiring.

Do you know if SKY can replace these or do they charge stupid amounts of money as usual :P

I just don't want to fit a yellowy horrible box back onto a freshly gpyroc'd wall.
 
Yeah pretty sure its the master as its the only one in my house I know about lol.

So it would be a NTE5A master socket I need to get.

Is wiring it dangerous? Or is it just a case of disconnecting and reconnecting?

What is the difference between NTE5A and C
 
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Here is a photo of the socket.

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What kind should I buy to replace this horrendous old thing lol?

Its about £5 for a NTE5A with backbox.. or £10 for NTE5C which has the two ports on front instead of using a microfilter. Would save kids kicking it out lol.
 
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So I can just buy a openreach nte5c with the vdsl front panel and that will work with sky fibre and lets me get rid of the microfilter too?
 
Thanks..

I have ordered a NTE5C MK4 which apparently is the latest they have. It also comes with the vdsl frontplate which does away with the splitter... and if its too bulky ill just take it off and get normal bottom plate.

Hopefully ill get it installed fine on Friday but if not expect me back.

Is it safe to cut the wires or are they live?

Cheers for the help guys...


Also I have sky.. so even if they sent an engineer out they wouldn't know i fitted it would they.. could have been owners before me lol..
 
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Thanks.

Its just cause a guide I seen said trim the wire if its chewed so you have a fresh connection. Didnt want to snip and go flying through a nice new wall lol :P
 
Ok, got a great start on the new walls today, half of the timber battens are up :)

I got to the master socket but I noticed something while working... If you look on the photo the cable that comes out of the side of the box goes from my living room to my kitchen back door, then goes into a small box and outside.

What is this cable? Can it be removed or will I need to wire it back up when the new walls are up?

 
Damn, opened it there to have a look and it was the blue/red cable (A & B), so yeah seems like it goes to the telephone pole :(

I suppose I will need to come up with an idea to hide the cable, feed it through walls rather than round door frames and under door frames etc.

Am I right in assuming I just wire in those red/blue into the clear cap on the back off the new NTE5C? Do I need to use the other colours for broadband or just leave them hanging?
 
I won't touch the cable if I can, but look at the pictures, they have the cable going along skirting, along 2 doorframes, then instead of going through the wall it actually pins under the door frame, which causes the door to jam when shut.

I was hoping just to re-connect a fresh piece from the junction box, along the ceiling corner, drill through the wall (where my ethernet is) and fit that way.



Like I say hopefully I can get away with not doing it, and just plasterboard over the top of the cables.
 
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Pretty much yeah. Its in living room next to a built in boxed unit for router to sit at. Plus couch will be there to hide socket.

Ill take a photo later of the wiring inside my socket but im sure it was red/orange and blue going into A & B with two other cables just dangling inside.
 
Ok my new socket came in post there, I have assembled it and all seems to be working perfect.



The colours inside where A=BLUE, B=RED, and GREEN and BROWN where going to nothing.

I put the same A-B colours in and its working :)

As far as replacing the cable going from the socket to the junction, what type of cable would this be?
 
I need to go to Screwfix anyway so ill pick that 50m up... that will let me run a neat cable that can be accessed again if needed... ill keep the old box and cable just incase anything happens to the socket ill fire it back on.

I assume attaching the fresh cable is the same at the junction box as it was fitting the new socket?

What difference would network cable make?
 
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After checking, I probably do need about 30m so 50m gives me a bit of slack, will pick that up soon from them :) No point fitting though until walls are up :)

Thanks again for all the support and knowledge guys ;)
 
Yeah the newest version is MK4.

The wires go on by way of a clip that lifts.. wires poke thought and clip down... very simple.

In terms of it sticking out you can remove the whole front vdsl plate by unclipping rather than screwing off.. but it almost sticks out just as far as if you had a microfilter on it anyway.

If you remove the front plate it reveals just a simple telephone port as standard and is only a little thicker out the wall as normal too.

Reason I like the vdsl plate is you can accidentally get it kicked by kids running around like a microfilter can.
 
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