Roughly how much to move BT master socket?

[alx]

Currently our house has the BT master socket in the master bedroom upstairs, which as you can imagine isn't ideal seeing as our router is in the downstairs study.

When we first got the internet (56k days), we got a seperate line/number so we could use the internet at the same time as the phone. As the telegraph pole was on the edge of our garden, BT just installed another line from the pole to the side of the house and into the study where a new socket was installed. When broadband came along we then merged the new line with the old one, so this new socket in the study basically became a slave socket (however one that was directly connected to the nearest telegrpah pole).

How hard/expensive would it be to move the master socket from upstairs in the bedroom to the currently bog standard socket in the study where our router now lives? I'm guessing we'd need to get BT in to do it?

 

[Magic_x_uk]

technically you would need to get BT in no idea of cost. But I bet it wont be cheap.


Could you run a Cat cable from router to study?

 

[Makhaira]

If you used to have a phoneline entering your house in the study, then the study socket will be a master too - you can check by unscrewing the cover. If there is anything other than a set of wires straight into the socket, it's a master.

You may find the easiest thing is just to ask your number to be transferred, since they can do that at your local exchange box.

 

[TFC]

BT will quote approx £180, I had it done by an independant ex BT engineer for £30

 

[masonkian]

dont pay BT get some independant to do it

 

[Linkex]

Sorry, maybe a stupid question, but why can't you hook the router into the "slave" socket in the study? I wasn't aware of routers caring which socket they are plugged into as long as they have a microfilter on all used sockets?

 

[alx]

Thanks for the replies

Could you run a Cat cable from router to study?

I could technically but it would be a bit of a pain

BT will quote approx £180, I had it done by an independant ex BT engineer for £30

dont pay BT get some independant to do it

Cheers for the suggestion, could be a plan

Sorry, maybe a stupid question, but why can't you hook the router into the "slave" socket in the study? I wasn't aware of routers caring which socket they are plugged into as long as they have a microfilter on all used sockets?

I currently do have the router attached to this 'slave' socket, however I just wanted to see if it would be feasible to move the master socket as it normally gives the best speeds.

Will also double check the 'slave' socket in the study to see if it's actually a master socket.

 

[RoyMi6]

As Linkex has mentioned I'd second actually testing your theory.

Although it's advised to use the master socket I was always under the impression this was just to protect against any problems.

Fire up your laptop and plug it directly into your router while plugged into your master socket and do a speed test. Then do the same thing in your study.

Weigh up if the speed gain is worth the costs involved.

From my experience with ADSL you've got every chance that any change to your existing slave socket could be detrimental to your speeds.

 

[dmsims]

As BRAS profiles take a while to adjust a speedtest will show no difference.

Look at what the router syncs at (and any errors) instead