- Master socket - upgrade
- Posted by Chris Watts on February 25th, 2004
If an existing installation is old and does not have a NTE5 master socket
what will BT charge to come and fit one?
Chris
- Posted by Tiscali Tim on February 25th, 2004
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Chris Watts <ng@ctwatts.plus.com> wrote:
I suspect that if they come *just* for that, yes - but if they do it when
coming to fix a fault, no.
If I'm right, you could try loosing one of the screws on the incoming line,
and then complain of a noisy line.
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Tim
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- Posted by Chris Watts on February 26th, 2004
"Tiscali Tim" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Incidenatlly they did not do it when changing my line from HH to ADSL - but
then I didn't ask.
Chris
- Posted by Tiscali Tim on February 26th, 2004
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Chris Watts <ng@ctwatts.plus.com> wrote:
I'm amazed - because when I had HH installed they took away my master socket
and replaced it with a dummy - into which the existing extension wiring was
connected - with onward wiring to the HH box. I'm assuming that if and when
I upgrade from HH to ADSL, they'll have to take away this dummy and replace
it with an NTE5. I can't understand why they didn't do this is your case.
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- Posted by Chris Watts on February 26th, 2004
"Tiscali Tim" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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not a NTE5) with a dummy etc. - lines went from this to the HH box and to
extensions.
When I upgraded to ADSL they left the dummy untouched but replaced the HH
box with what appears simply to be an extension socket - no NTE5 anywhere.
Chris
- Posted by Tiscali Tim on February 26th, 2004
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Chris Watts <ng@ctwatts.plus.com> wrote:
In that case, I'm amazed even more - because the dummy is just a junction
box with no components in it. So, from what you say, you haven't got a
master socket at all - which seems unlikely. Are you sure that the socket
put in place of the HH box isn't a master? Have you looked inside it, and
has it got any electronic components in it?
[I suspect that it is a master and that it has 5 or 6 wires connected to
it - 2 for the incoming pair and 3 or 4 going back to the dummy for the
extensions - bearing in mind that, in a HH installation, the "master"
functions are inside the HH box]
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- Posted by Chris Watts on February 26th, 2004
"Tiscali Tim" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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not looked inside it. I was assuming it was a secondary (extension) socket
as it has a dual outlet faceplate (at my request) and I have only seen those
on extensions and not on master sockets.
Chris
- Posted by Ian Nelson on February 26th, 2004
Sorry for being dumb but what does the NTE5 look like
reason:
I am having HH to ADSL done next week and want all bits as sorted as
possible...
cheers
Ian
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- Posted by Chris Watts on February 26th, 2004
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links with pictures.
:-)
Chris
- Posted by Tiscali Tim on February 26th, 2004
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Ian Nelson <nospam@ian.news(AT)neltek.com> wrote:
Have a look at http://www.solwise.co.uk/adsl_splitters.htm#NTE5
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- Posted by I_N on February 26th, 2004
You'd be surprised! :-)
Fair enough
Thanks
Ian
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- Posted by Kráftéé on February 26th, 2004
Chris Watts wrote:
Rethink it through & take another look you will have had an NTE5 somewhere
in the circuit. HH gets fed from a modified faceplate on this NTE5 so there
must have be one somewhere. Now whether they've changed the NTE5 to a 4/1a
(or it could be a 5/1a I always get those 2 mixed up) to give you a double
socket, as you say they have, that will be your master socket & it has taken
the place of your NTE, but to have had HH you will have had a NTE5 somehwere
in your house (some of them are in very strange places as well as I've come
to find out)...
- Posted by Chris Watts on February 26th, 2004
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not (and never has been) an NTE5 - I can trace every inch of cable in the
place! If there was I would have found it and used it long ago!
Chris
- Posted by Kráftéé on February 26th, 2004
Chris Watts wrote:
But as you said (it was you wasn't it, sorry if I'm mixing up who said what,
it's been a loooooooooooong day with multiple disagreements with those above
me) they fitted you a double socket, that could have been where the NTE used
to be.....
