Those look a lot healthier. He may have initiated a DLM reset as well though, so if there are any exterior bad influences you may get a bit of a drop in a couple of days.

Odd that he disconnected the kitchen - I assume that was where the phone was. He will be concerned about the actual wires from the lobby to the living room as they will be standard telephone cable. When they do extensions for VDSL2 they used CAT 5 IIRC.

Did he fit a Mk3 filter plate, or leave you dangly?

Does it matter that the phone now has to be in the living room? With a Mk3 on the moved master it would be almost risk-free and probably fairly easy to reconnect it. If doing that did affect things even easier just to disconnect it again. (That's why I've struck out the early bit. The engineer will have wanted as safe a setup as he could manage, giving his concern about the wires themselves).

Best to leave that sort of thing for a couple of months and make sure all is now well before doing anything like that.

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 20-Jun-16 19:54:36)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Those look a lot healthier. He may have initiated a DLM reset as well though, so if there are any exterior bad influences you may get a bit of a drop in a couple of days.

Odd that he disconnected the kitchen - I assume that was where the phone was. He will be concerned about the actual wires from the lobby to the living room as they will be standard telephone cable. When they do extensions for VDSL2 they used CAT 5 IIRC.

Did he fit a Mk3 filter plate, or leave you dangly?

Does it matter that the phone now has to be in the living room? With a Mk3 on the moved master it would be almost risk-free and probably fairly easy to reconnect it. If doing that did affect things even easier just to disconnect it again. (That's why I've struck out the early bit. The engineer will have wanted as safe a setup as he could manage, giving his concern about the wires themselves).

Best to leave that sort of thing for a couple of months and make sure all is now well before doing anything like that.

As far as I can see he has swapped the actual boxes over, with the Openreach master now in the living room - with the plain old all-in-one faceplate now in the lobby - which I believe has nothing connected in the back.

As for having the telephone in the living room it's no problem at all, but I do remember why it was moved to the kitchen in the first place... Damn answer machine!

I did wonder about the CAT 5 cable but I'll leave things be for a month or so and hope all goes well. If it does drop 10Mb or so I won't be going through the hassle of changing all the cabling etc.

Thanks again, Roberto, terrific insight

Does the one in the lobby have a dial tone? I wouldn't expect it to now. If it does, then connecting the kitchen should be no problem, as long as you fit a Mk3 at the master.

But still leave well alone for a couple of months.