In reply to a post by Anonymous:

The extensions are yours to do with as you please so you can tamper with them all you like.

I haven't tampered with the extensions. I tampered with the Master.

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.

In reply to a post by flimbo:

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).

Edited by RobertoS (Sun 05-Aug-12 08:42:26)

In reply to your original question it is a completely separate connection.

Referring to my original question then. So I don't need to reconnect the two wires I disconnected? The ring wire and another one.

No, just leave it.

Who said I was telling you?

Well, you replied to my post.

In reply to a post by Argy70:

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.

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.