Install cable and socket to extend router connection. Which remote faceplate?

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(Apologies if some of the terminology is incorrect in this post – please correct as necessary). In my house I have the ADSL (?) EE router connected to the BT Master Socket 5C, mk4 near the front of the house. The router connects to the master socket via an RJ11 plug on the data side. The phone line is inactive as this is not provided with my EE contract. This all works fine. However, I want to move the router to the centre of the house. I have looked a some youtube videos and the principle seems to be to attach a pair of wires from a Cat 5e or cat 6 ethernet cable to the AB socket inside the BT master socket – I have found this. Then at the other end of the extension cable, which I have run, terminate in a socket where the wires from the AB output attach to a pair of crimp points at the new socket. Now I bought a Cat 5e face plate before I realised I needed an RJ11 socket at the remote end. The Cat 5e / RJ45 socket I bought for the remote end has two thin push-out plates, I suppose to add another module/socket alongside the RJ45 socket. However, all I need is data. Can someone recommend the correct faceplate to put at the remote end so I can attach the two data wires from the BT master socket to an RJ11 socket at the remote end and which crimp points to use at the remote end?

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I have had a look at the cable between the BT master socket and the router. The RJ11 plug looks like it has only the two centre pins with "copper tags" in them. Does this mean I connect a pair of wires from outlets AB on the master socket to "crimp points" 3 and 4 on the remote RJ11 socket? That would be the bottom two "crimp points" if I bought a faceplate socket like the attached image?
 

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You could just use the BT socket in the new position by extending the cable. I know you are strictly speaking not supposed to tinker with the BT side of things.......
 
I have ordered from Screwfix the RJ11 module (the Knightsbridge one I think) to replace the RJ45 socket at the remote end. I always get bad results when I tinker with things, such as BT wiring, in an "unconventional" ways. I want to touch as little of what works as possible. I will take photos and post results when I have the plugin RJ11 module and wired everything up.
 
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(see attached images) I attached a pair of wires from a Cat5e cable to the "push down" connector at the back of the front plate of the BT master socket type 5c, MK4. At the remote RJ11 socket I connected, using a punch tool, the same pair of wires to pins 3 and 4. I had to do this twice, using different wire pairs, for the connection to the router to work at the remote RJ11 socket. I have been running this with router attached to the remote RJ11 socket and the broadband connection has been stable.
 

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