Hi all
My customer currently has the BT cable coming up out of the ground near his front room window. It runs up over the window and over to the window next to the front door where it runs in to one of the old oval boxes. From there it branches off in two directions (down to the window sill near the front door and back to the front room . Both terminate in the old small square boxes (with the capacitors inside).
The internal run that goes to the front room exits the internal wall lower than the new skirting (to be fitted) so I told him that I would snip the external cable and run it through the wall and to in the front room where the BT MODEM is.
The plan is to fit an NTE5 box so that BT don't throw a wobbly if they ever turn up. Thinking about it, he would probably prefer the box to not be quite so deep. I am going to suggest that I recess a 35mm deep metal back box. From what I have read BT don't seem like recessed boxes. Is there a valid reason for that? And if they discovered one would they really throw a hissy fit?
As a short term measure, I noticed that there was an external cable running from the exterior box that runs in through the frame of the front window. I snipped the cables running to the front door and used some gel crimps to "activate" the section running in through the front room window and wired up one of the old small master boxes.
I did look at the newer NTE5c boxes but there have been a number of complaints about the lower face plates and plastic lugs. At the moment, after my re-routing, and using the old small square box, the MODEM is still showing 79mb up and 19mb down. Would there be anything to gain from using a 5c? If not I will order the older style box.
Thanks in advance.
And... yes, I am aware that I should not "interfere" or tamper with OpenReach's network. Today cost my customer 15 minutes of my labour and didn't require a two week booking window.
My customer currently has the BT cable coming up out of the ground near his front room window. It runs up over the window and over to the window next to the front door where it runs in to one of the old oval boxes. From there it branches off in two directions (down to the window sill near the front door and back to the front room . Both terminate in the old small square boxes (with the capacitors inside).
The internal run that goes to the front room exits the internal wall lower than the new skirting (to be fitted) so I told him that I would snip the external cable and run it through the wall and to in the front room where the BT MODEM is.
The plan is to fit an NTE5 box so that BT don't throw a wobbly if they ever turn up. Thinking about it, he would probably prefer the box to not be quite so deep. I am going to suggest that I recess a 35mm deep metal back box. From what I have read BT don't seem like recessed boxes. Is there a valid reason for that? And if they discovered one would they really throw a hissy fit?
As a short term measure, I noticed that there was an external cable running from the exterior box that runs in through the frame of the front window. I snipped the cables running to the front door and used some gel crimps to "activate" the section running in through the front room window and wired up one of the old small master boxes.
I did look at the newer NTE5c boxes but there have been a number of complaints about the lower face plates and plastic lugs. At the moment, after my re-routing, and using the old small square box, the MODEM is still showing 79mb up and 19mb down. Would there be anything to gain from using a 5c? If not I will order the older style box.
Thanks in advance.
And... yes, I am aware that I should not "interfere" or tamper with OpenReach's network. Today cost my customer 15 minutes of my labour and didn't require a two week booking window.
