In reply to a post by Stevenage_Neil:

In reply to a post by 4M2:

....although of course the OP hasn't mentioned that it includes a test socket and could just be a phone socket linked to an other non NTE5 socket elsewhere

My thoughts entirely!

But that takes me back to the question I asked Mick Bolton from Zen to clarify his statement: "...the engineer may deem the current extension socket is suitable and use it."

BTW. Please don't misquote me when you wrote "other non NTE5"

Edited by 4M2 (Mon 14-Oct-13 19:46:00)

Hi all,

The engineer may move the NTE5 socket to the end of the extension but this all depends on the extension itself and the engineer on the day, this is be no way guaranteed.

The official line is the fibre needs to be fitted on the NTE5 and the engineer will do up to 30m of internal cabling. However they may take the course of action I've detailed above but that is decided on an install by install basis.

Thanks
Mick

In reply to a post by mickbzen:

The engineer may move the NTE5 socket to the end of the extension but this all depends on the extension itself and the engineer on the day, this is be no way guaranteed.

The official line is the fibre needs to be fitted on the NTE5 and the engineer will do up to 30m of internal cabling. However they may take the course of action I've detailed above but that is decided on an install by install basis.

Thanks for the clarification Mick

The 'master' downstairs is indeed an NTE5 - I asked my father and it will split apart to reveal the test socket.

As I understand it, the problem is likely to be that if the BT engineer is happy to use the existing extension wiring, then would the extension then be usable only for VDSL?

Not a dire problem as DECT phones are used throughout the house, but we'd then need to install a power socket next to the NTE5 downstairs - which then sort of negates the need to run wiring upstairs for VDSL, as the router could be downstairs and use either wireless (my father tends to use a laptop more than the main pc upstairs anyway) or run ethernet over powerline adaptors.

If the extension cable is of acceptable quality then the installing engineer may be happy to use it. If you don't need a phone on that extension then it may be possible to utilize it for the vdsl signal using one of the twisted pairs linking the A&B terminals on the NTE5 filtered faceplate to the modem upstairs via a rj11 socket (replacing the existing phone socket upstairs) and a short rj11 to rj11 lead.

Personally, I wouldn't rely on the BT engineer being very competent (they may just send out a [censored] contractor like they did with me). Perhaps you could extend the master socket yourself to somewhere downstairs nearer a power source and have the master socket moved to there by the engineer. Then get BT to install the data extension from there to upstairs. That way you may have less phone line distance over which the signal will attenuate.