In which case just use a joint box or jelly crimps

Fitting an NTE at that point will do nothing.

Post pictures of the other terminations and someone will advise.

My advice at the moment is not to have too hot a cup of tea in your hand that you can't split town quick when the NTE doesn't do anything.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

In which case just use a joint box or jelly crimps

Ok then, So I'll stick a joint box in the loft and worth fitting a new NTE5 socket into the living room? Then leave the secondary plate in the kitchen?

He asked about getting a new type socket fitted for using a test socket in the future, Hence why I want to fit one.

Something like this for the loft?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/BT80A-Single-Line-Telephone-...

Edited by deleted (Wed 16-Jul-14 22:39:33)

Put the joint back how you found it and post pics of the wiring in the live sockets in the house.

Edited by deleted (Wed 16-Jul-14 22:40:32)

In reply to a post by partial:

Put the joint back how you found it and post pics of the wiring in the live sockets in the house.

Aye so bodge it back together with some chocolate block? Sounds good!

And photos of the insides of the two extensions please , saying which is where.

It does sound from the later posts that there is more to it then originally thought. I didn't spot the query about what is actually in that junction box. Just that one pair was correctly coloured.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

And photos of the insides of the two extensions please , saying which is where.

It does sound from the later posts that there is more to it then originally thought. I didn't spot the query about what is actually in that junction box. Just that one pair was correctly coloured.

I'll be sure to post a picture once we get the loft and the snip sorted out. I'll bell out the wires in the extensions when I'm there to figure out exactly which wires go where.

Edit to add: Can anyone link me some good quality twisted pair that I can show my mate to see if he wants to upgrade the extension cable while we are at it?

Sorry for all the confusion but I'm just relaying info from my friend and quite confused myself after speaking to him so a visit will be on the cards this weekend I think.

Edited by deleted (Wed 16-Jul-14 23:06:23)

CW1308 is the normal spec for telephone wiring, but if looking at extension wiring then CAT5 ethernet cable will have a better noise rejection but higher price

Personally I wouldn't take that job on for somebody - better to get OR to fit a NTE5 wired to the "live" orange and white drop wire pair in the loft with the extension terminated on a filtered faceplate. Then you could install CAT5 from the A&B terminals on the filtered faceplate to a dedicated ADSL socket for the router in the required location (or even a NTE5 installed in the required location by the engineer using CW1308 from the current junction box and then later you could sort out the extension(s) from that NTE5.)

Alternatively you could fit your own NTE5 adjacent to one of the phone sockets in order to get a "test socket", e.g. https://www.claritybroadband.co.uk/telecoms/nte5.htm , but that might require considerable rewiring using existing cables that may be of questionable quality.

Good luck.

Edited by 4M2 (Thu 17-Jul-14 02:34:56)

Just to agree with Partial, the photo you link to would imply two separate lines coming in on the dropwire at some point.

Could it be that the two sockets after are just linked in series, just that one is an LJU rather than an NTE ?

It may well be that as per your original suggestion, it's just a long line, and fitting a modern NTE with a faceplate filter will help. You really need to sort Edward Scissorhands work in the loft, if not a problem now, it will be soon enough.