Test socket stopping othe phone sockets from working

hellarda · 6 Nov 2011 at 18:16

Hi all,

about a month ago I took the face plate off of our master socket and plugged the router into the test socket... to my amazement my internet speed more than tripled! (sync speed of 6848kbps as opposed to 2240kbps) now i realised straight away that it had cut off the other extension sockets but we don't tend to use them so i ignored it.

However my parents now want to plug a phone into their bedroom socket but atm they can't because it doesnt work.

Clearly i do not want to go back to 2meg internet seeing as im quite liking it at 6 currently... is there anyway that i can get the extension sockets to work without losing my speed?

cheers

Ali

bremen1874 · 6 Nov 2011 at 18:46

Try reconnecting them without the ringer wire.

You could also try a filtered faceplate.

hellarda · 6 Nov 2011 at 18:47

bremen1874 said:
Try reconnecting them without the ringer wire.

You could also try a filtered faceplate.

sorry ringer wire?

where could i find a filtered faceplate?

bremen1874 · 6 Nov 2011 at 19:07

Look here for infomation about the BT I-Plate. This basically just disconnects the ringer wire.

For more geneneral information just Google 'ringer wire'.

Google also turns up everthing you need if you search for 'filtered faceplate'. They'll all be competitor sites, so I'm not going to link/mention them directly.

A filtered faceplate will do the same job as the I-Plate as far as isolating the ringer wire is concerned.

Swifty55 · 6 Nov 2011 at 19:43

Buy some cordless phones?

That way you connect the main base to the test socket with the modem and then your parents can have a charger base upstairs in their bedroom?

hellarda · 7 Nov 2011 at 09:37

Swifty55 said:
Buy some cordless phones?

That way you connect the main base to the test socket with the modem and then your parents can have a charger base upstairs in their bedroom?

yeh we already do this, we currently have 2 cordless phones downstairs in the house, but its quite a big house so we need to have two phones downstairs so we couldnt take one of them upstairs.

if that makes sense

marmalade · 7 Nov 2011 at 10:52

check the wiring on all the sockets in the house .Use a filtered master socket faceplate.

varkanoid · 7 Nov 2011 at 13:20

can you just buy another handset for the cordless phones, I would suspect you can.

3dcandy · 7 Nov 2011 at 15:20

you can buy another handset, but all you need to do is get a decent filtered plate for your nte5 socket. adsl nation do the best one I've come across, it's about £15 and you can wire up the extensions etc. properly.

http://www.adslnation.com/products/xte2005.php

entail · 7 Nov 2011 at 17:55

best way is like others have said get a ADSL Service Specific faceplate and IDC inserter to reattach all your telephone extensions

blueacid · 7 Nov 2011 at 18:26

Go to every single phone socket in the house and disconnect all the writes except for numbers 2&5. See how that goes and report back.