They usually break when trying to untangle cables. The little clip gets caught on a cable and bends back - it doesn't take much for them to break. Good idea with the blu-tack - never tried that.

I've done it plenty myself, just never seen every cable in a house be that way

Great tip about the blu-tack, legume, trying that out now...

I always buy 'snag-less' Ethernet cables - where the latch is protected from snagging and breaking off by either the boot or a protruding part on the plug.

Same here Rastus, it certainly helps. As MrSaffron suggests, there's no chance of anything but the skinniest plug going into these ports. Combine that with trying to secure them in a messy, dark cupboard, leaves the poor clip with little chance of survival...

Edited by Gal12 (Thu 27-Apr-17 16:55:09)

In reply to a post by Gal12:

The setup of her home and BT Infinity installation in summary: three BT boxes (a little research suggests that these are the BT ONT, a battery backup and a third mystery box) attached to a wall under the stairs.

Just for completeness, I'll clarify that the third mystery box is a "customer splice point" (CSP).

It is where the external fibre and a fibre "pig-tail" have been joined together. The other end of the "pig-tail" is plugged into the ONT.