Replacing telephone wires and fitting master socket HELP

[steven43]

Hey people

I found an unconnected BT branded master box up in one of the bedrooms and decided to replace the old box with it (as they wouldn't know I did it). On just replacing the box I can report download speeds have increased from 0.7mb to 2.6mb and upload speeds are up from 0.1mb to 0.5mb. I also cut the 10m excess line shorter. Tested the house phone, works great with no noise on the line.

Very happy with those numbers but I will report back once I replace the old cable as well as another extension box (that's hanging from the ceiling) and another extension wire coming from that. I'm going to run the wire straight from the new master box in the kitchen, to the living room where the phone/modem are! thanks for all the help! (Although I ignored 90% of it haha)

 

[Alarm]

As we knew you would.

Lets see who is laughing when it all goes pop and OpenReach hit you with a bill and or cut you off.

Typical smug waste of space.



PS your speed is still poor.

 

[TonyW2]

Well done.
Now go the whole hog and replace the front half of that NT5 with an adapted filtered front plate. Well worth the £10 or so.

 

[steven43]

@Tonyw2

Is it worth buying that if you can't plug your modem directly into it? The master box is above the back door in the kitchen see, and I would like the phone and modem to be in the living room

Or should I fit the adapter to the the box in the living room? So I won't have to use a micro filter

 

[TonyW2]

It must be the master box and fitted first, but you can then get the extension boxes with an ADSL outlet and a filtered telephone outlet.
( See my first post).
Of course, if the socket above the back door is only acting as a junction box, then merely extending the wiring of the A B incomers to a master box NTE5 adapted in the living room would work. BT have a simple connection/extension box.......but of course you are not allowed to change it yourself.

 

[steven43]

Ok great! Once my cable arrives I will extend the A & B connections, from the junction box, to the the master socket in the living room then fit an ADSL filtered faceplate!

 

[TonyW2]

If you do just go down that route, don't forget that if you ever call out OpenReach (BT) it will be very obvious that you have interfered with their system.
You don't really want to have to restore everything before you can report a fault.

Finally, keep the original BT box so that you could restore the situation if you do find any interference still occurring.

 

[bernardgreen]

It is very difficult to restore cabling without leaving some signs of it having been tampered with. Paint chipped off the cable was the give away for one person I know.

 

[djrock]

Nothing we can do now. We warned him about it being bt's property. It fell on deaf ears. We warned him about the consequences about tampering with bt's property. It fell on deaf ears. We told him about that it would be fix for free. It still fell on deaf ears.

 

[Alarm]

I like the new "speed" he has.

 

[SteNova]

It is very difficult to restore cabling without leaving some signs of it having been tampered with. Paint chipped off the cable was the give away for one person I know.

bt paint the cables???

 

[bernardgreen]

bt paint the cables???

No

One owner of the house had painted the door frame and the drop cable inside the door with white gloss paint. The next owner of the house moved the BT terminal block and re-routed the drop cable in through a window. When the phone went dead due to an external cable fault he called BT who came to the house to check the line out from the house towards the exchange. The white paint on the cable did not match the paint on the window. He got a large bill for the repair even though the actual fault was on the DP ring head. ( metalwork at the top of the pole in the street )

 

[Alarm]

That was obvious, what you were going to say TBH.


Just like when we get a call for a faulty pir/tamper and you can see the new wallpaper cut around the detector.
And the equipment id blamed.

Or the new carpet fitted lol.

 

[bernardgreen]

That was obvious, what you were going to say TBH.

I wanted to make the point that it is not easy to cover up un-authorised alterations when the man comes to repair the phone line.

Often nothing will happen if the tampering is "acceptable" but sometimes even "acceptable" tampering will invoke a breach of contract reaction from the phone company and/or OpenReach.

If the tampering in not acceptable ( creates a hazard to staff or OpenReach equipment ) then a breach of contract reaction is very likely.

 

[Alarm]

Always good to be clear.