Hi All.
We just had an extension done, and due to the nature of the works the cable from the pole was detached from the house, now we are at the stage where it can now be added back.
Before the works, below is a summary of the setup.
From the pole there is a black twisted copper cable attahed to the fascia board of the house, thesame cable goes into one of the rooms with a BT branded box, from the BT wall box, there are 2 extensions that go downstairs, one for a phone socket and the other for my broadband socket.
I took some photos of the box just before the cable got detaached from the wall.
There are 3 cables here, one would be from the pole, and the other 2 are the extensions which terminate downstairs.
The plan today.
Now I want to imitate thesame setup above, but things are a little different now. Prior to the works, the twisted copper cable goes into a room (its one of the 3 cables shown above), now with the extension which now has a roof at a raised level, the connections will now go into the loft. So the BT box can now be in the loft, and a new cable can be dropped from the BT box/loft location to where I intend to have the modem/telephone.
I want to have 2 sockets coming off the main BT box in the loft, one for a phone and 1 for broadband, should I extend the broadband one first from the loft, and then run another extension from the broadband point, or run 2 seperate extensions from the BT box in the loft onto the 2 locations.
I am also not familiar with how to connect it, the colour codes etc. Any guidance will be appreciated.
We just had an extension done, and due to the nature of the works the cable from the pole was detached from the house, now we are at the stage where it can now be added back.
Before the works, below is a summary of the setup.
From the pole there is a black twisted copper cable attahed to the fascia board of the house, thesame cable goes into one of the rooms with a BT branded box, from the BT wall box, there are 2 extensions that go downstairs, one for a phone socket and the other for my broadband socket.
I took some photos of the box just before the cable got detaached from the wall.
There are 3 cables here, one would be from the pole, and the other 2 are the extensions which terminate downstairs.
The plan today.
Now I want to imitate thesame setup above, but things are a little different now. Prior to the works, the twisted copper cable goes into a room (its one of the 3 cables shown above), now with the extension which now has a roof at a raised level, the connections will now go into the loft. So the BT box can now be in the loft, and a new cable can be dropped from the BT box/loft location to where I intend to have the modem/telephone.
I want to have 2 sockets coming off the main BT box in the loft, one for a phone and 1 for broadband, should I extend the broadband one first from the loft, and then run another extension from the broadband point, or run 2 seperate extensions from the BT box in the loft onto the 2 locations.
I am also not familiar with how to connect it, the colour codes etc. Any guidance will be appreciated.