In reply to a post by caffn8me:

I'm glad it's all sorted now.

Call me old-fashioned, but I really dislike the NTE5C master socket. It just feels cheap and nasty, which is probably because it's cheap and nasty. The SSFP (DSL filter) is knocked off the front too easily because the clips aren't very strong. I usually resort to white gaffer tape to hold the filter on.

I also don't like the lack of a place to attach the incoming cable to the back of the socket with a cable tie.

Or I wouldn't like it if I'd ever fitted one, which of course I haven't, obviously 🤥

I wouldn't like to say how many master sockets are used by Openreach in just one day, but clearly it's lots! So any manufacturing costs that can be saved by redesign will save a pretty penny. We therefore end up with something that is right on the edge of functionality and visibly acceptable (and maybe just below par).

I too was surprised that the incoming supply cable could not be tied down, but then again under normal circumstances it would never be detached from the pattress. I would say that its biggest oversight in design is that two sockets cannot be mounted side by side as you would then have extreme difficulty in removing the cover of either.

20 + years ago, I visited a plastic moulding company in Kent who were making the back box and faceplates and I could not believe how many were coming off the moulding line. The continual stream ran around 10 hours per day, 250 days a year!

In reply to a post by caffn8me:

I'm glad it's all sorted now.

Call me old-fashioned, but I really dislike the NTE5C master socket. It just feels cheap and nasty, which is probably because it's cheap and nasty. The SSFP (DSL filter) is knocked off the front too easily because the clips aren't very strong. I usually resort to white gaffer tape to hold the filter on.

I also don't like the lack of a place to attach the incoming cable to the back of the socket with a cable tie.

Or I wouldn't like it if I'd ever fitted one, which of course I haven't, obviously 🤥

The same as that .
I seriously dislike the way the supplied screws take an uncomfortably long time to screw into the cheap as chips back boxes.