LesW
24-06-2009, 15:22
Dear Forum members
Could someone offer advice / suggestions regarding the BT main socket.
I recently ordered broadband for my mother and confidently went across to install the modem at her house. The first problem was I wasn’t getting a broadband connection light on the modem, now this has happened to me before on other places and nearly always is something to do with DIY phone extension.
In these circumstances my first action would be to couple the modem to the BT master socket, check it worked and then work my way out from there.
So having traced (from the outside) the path of the BT cable it enters by the door, but on the inside, instead of coming across a NTE5 Master Socket, I found a simple junction box. (See attachments)
My question is has anyone come across this before and should ( can I ) replace it with a NTE5 box.
Supplementary question – Do I need a splitter on every extension wall socket irrespective of whether there is anything connected to it?
Best regards and thanks
Les W
Could someone offer advice / suggestions regarding the BT main socket.
I recently ordered broadband for my mother and confidently went across to install the modem at her house. The first problem was I wasn’t getting a broadband connection light on the modem, now this has happened to me before on other places and nearly always is something to do with DIY phone extension.
In these circumstances my first action would be to couple the modem to the BT master socket, check it worked and then work my way out from there.
So having traced (from the outside) the path of the BT cable it enters by the door, but on the inside, instead of coming across a NTE5 Master Socket, I found a simple junction box. (See attachments)
My question is has anyone come across this before and should ( can I ) replace it with a NTE5 box.
Supplementary question – Do I need a splitter on every extension wall socket irrespective of whether there is anything connected to it?
Best regards and thanks
Les W