First, from the BT Help found in several links by googling "Data extension kit", we have, with my bold
The BT Infinity Data Extension Kit is a special cable up to 30 metres long and roughly the diameter of a pencil. It provides a wired connection between your telephone master socket and your BT Infinity Hub (via your Openreach modem) to give you the best broadband speeds possible.To me that means that if your router (HH) on ADSLx was by the master socket then the fibre router and modem go there, with no data extension kit, on the assumption that whatever arrangements the user had before will work as before.
Unlike a standard broadband Hub, we can’t plug the BT Infinity Hub into a phone extension socket: it needs to connect directly to your phone master socket. This is because standard home phone wiring (between sockets) can’t carry the higher data speeds of BT Infinity. Your old Hub might be plugged into a phone extension socket, perhaps in a work area upstairs. But if you want to put your new Hub in the same place, you’ll now need the extension kit to connect it to the master socket downstairs.
You won’t need the extension kit cabling if you’re happy for your new BT Infinity Hub to sit with your Openreach modem, next to your master phone socket.
It doesn't make clear the position of the modem with the kit, but clearly the router is at the far end from the master.
We also have this OR diagram, which to me shows two alternatives. Master >> modem >> (ethernet >>) router, or master >> kit >> modem >> router.
The initial installation with the modem and router both at the master therefore seems to be not as intended by Openreach.
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Edited by RobertoS (Mon 09-May-11 00:08:17)