In reply to a post by mercury202:

Sadly UW have said, it won't be switched until the 17th. ("All part of us providing you good service!" Ridiculous ...)

Probably a blessing in disguise; gives you a chance to get the home wiring sorted out.

if you are not using the extension sockets then it would be a good idea to fully disconnect them from the "master" socket. What is the nearest phone socket to the BT80 on the windowsill (the connecting box that you pictured)? If it is the one in the hall then its a good chance that that will be the "master" and the extensions are wired from that.

Best of luck.

In reply to a post by 4M2:

Probably a blessing in disguise; gives you a chance to get the home wiring sorted out.

if you are not using the extension sockets then it would be a good idea to fully disconnect them from the "master" socket. What is the nearest phone socket to the BT80 on the windowsill (the connecting box that you pictured)? If it is the one in the hall then its a good chance that that will be the "master" and the extensions are wired from that.

Best of luck.

Well, I would've happily sorted out the wiring while the fibre is there

Yes, it is the one in the hall. I am kind of hoping it's not the master, as it's in a very awkward location (the nearest power socket is about 10 meters away).

How can I disconnect extensions, though? any guide you can link me to?

There's links in my signature which may help, but plenty of guides on the internet.

In reply to a post by mercury202:

Yes, it is the one in the hall. I am kind of hoping it's not the master, as it's in a very awkward location (the nearest power socket is about 10 meters away).

How can I disconnect extensions, though? any guide you can link me to?

First I would carefully disconnect the wires from the suspected extension sockets noting the positions of the wires and not allowing them to touch each other. After each disconnection check that there is a dial tone at the suspected hall "master", if there is a dial tone then a "master" is established. Then I would disconnect the extension wires from the "master" thus leaving only the feed from the BT80 connected.

If you don't have confidence in doing the job then it's probably best to get an Openreach engineer, or other authorised person to fit a NTE5 master socket + filtered faceplate in a more convenient location. Or perhaps retain the original "master's" location and replace it with a NTE5 + filtered faceplate and use a "data extension" from the NTE5 filtered faceplate to a more convenient location thus allowing filtered voice extensions to be reconnected (less bell wires) at the original "masters" position.

I don't recommend that you personally fit a NTE5 master socket as a replacement since that is not permissible but if you can remove the extensions from the suspected hall "master" that would be a good thing in order to hopefully prevent high error rates once the VDSL2 is activated.

Thanks! I did manage to identify the master socket yesterday using this approach. It is indeed the one in the hall which is annoying as I now face putting a long extension lead in

In reply to a post by mercury202:

Thanks! I did manage to identify the master socket yesterday using this approach. It is indeed the one in the hall which is annoying as I now face putting a long extension lead in

You are not alone - many folks have the master socket inconveniently located in the hall. At this stage its better to have a long mains extension lead rather than a long rj11 DSL lead (or use one of the other phone sockets since we don't know the quality of the internal wiring.)

In due course a conveniently positioned NTE5 master socket would be ideal but hopefully you will get good VDSL2 performance from the hall socket with the extensions disconnected from it.

In reply to a post by 4M2:

At this stage its better to have a long mains extension lead rather than a long rj11 DSL lead

Yes, I figured as much...