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I'm getting Sky Fibre installed next week and was wondering if they are going to make any changes to the regular BT master socket that I currently use for broadband.
A few years ago I disconnected a couple of the wires in there to increase my speed, the ring wire and I think another one too. And now can't remember which pins they would reconnect to if I needed to put them back the way they originally were. We have no extension sockets in the house.
So, do Sky fit a new socket or things like that?
Should I reconnect the wires back up?
Thanks.
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If you have no extensions - where did the ring wire and other wire go to?
With just a master there should be just the incoming BT pair connected to the very back of the master and nothing else.
BT OR will remove the existing faceplate and install a VDSL specific faceplate and if your existing had any wires connected, those will be reconnected exactly the same.
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We have two extension sockets but they are never used (bedroom and bathroom).
So I don't need to worry about reconnecting the redundant wires so BT don't suspect I've been fiddling?
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Where are they connected to? If connected to the removable face plate - no issue. Can you get a picture of the inside of the master, host it somewhere and provide a link.
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I assume they are connected to the master socket. There is a thick wire from the underneath of the socket that goes along the wall and upstairs to the extensions. As I said I have never used them and it is an old house, not sure they even work.
The only connections inside the socket are a thin blue wire and a thin white/blue wire to the front faceplate.
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That sounds OK - at a guess you may have just removed an Orange wire.
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Should I reconnect the wires before the engineer arrives?
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NO
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The extensions are yours to do with as you please so you can tamper with them all you like.
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In reply to a post by Anonymous:
Why are you telling me something I already know?
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In reply to a post by Anonymous:
I haven't tampered with the extensions. I tampered with the Master.
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You can tamper with the master, as long as you only take the lower portion of the face plate off, this is where the extensions connect. What your not allowed to do is take the upper rear portion off, you can only remove this part once the lower front section is removed from a standard NTE5 master socket.
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I haven't tampered with the extensions. I tampered with the Master. You can do what you like re extensions, as long as it isn't something stupid like attaching power cables to their connectors. That's the whole point of the master socket being the demarcation point. In particular, in the case of the NTE5 - where the bottom half of the faceplate comes off - that's why it comes off, so you can easily deal with extension connections there, and also easily isolate all home phone wiring from the incoming line for testing via the test socket. (Which the BT Phone Book tells you to do before reporting even a voice fault).
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Edited by RobertoS (Sun 05-Aug-12 08:42:26)
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In reply to your original question it is a completely separate connection.
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Referring to my original question then. So I don't need to reconnect the two wires I disconnected? The ring wire and another one.
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Who said I was telling you?
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Well, you replied to my post.
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In reply to your original question it is a completely separate connection. Errr - no?
Are you perhaps thinking of FTTP? This is about FTTC. As has been said, the standard NTE5 faceplate is replaced with an Openreach filtered faceplate with phone and VDSL(/ADSLx) sockets. There's a picture here.
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"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn.
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Not all people realise these forums are a bit different from other forums, my guess is he simply replied to the last post, which just happened to be yours, as you would in just about every other forum I've used.
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Well by the time he made his second post, he had managed to find the correct Reply button, thereby demonstrating he knows the answer to his question. Even if he doesn't realise he knows it.
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