My NTE5 Master Socket is a genuine BT version (with the embossed BT Piper
logo top left). The lower, removable faceplate has 'BT Digital Access'
screen-printed across it. There is one (presumably filtered) BT telephone
outlet socket only provided on the faceplate (i.e. no RJ11/45 ADSL sockets
are provided).

On the rear of the removable faceplate are two terminal blocks:

1. 4-way Green terminal block, numbered 2, 3, 4, 5
I assume this is a filtered connection point for hardwired extension
phones.

2. 6-way Blue terminal block, numbered A, B, (blank), CA, CB, CS
I assume this might be an unfiltered connection point for hardwiring
to ADSL devices, but I don't recognise the terminal references, other than
the obvious A & B terminals.

Can anyone provide any information on this faceplate?

TIA
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Mike

On 27/08/2007 14:26, mlv wrote:

Sounds like one of the "modified" solwise or clarify versions, the BT
ones don't have the unfiltered side on the punch-down block, just the
filtered side (and the screw down connectors for the line itself which
obviously you shouldn't touch as it's "their" side)

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:26:13 +0100, "mlv" <mlv7@googlemail.com> mused:

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Regards,
Stuart.

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:34:27 UTC, Lurch <myrealname@sjwelectrical.co.uk>
wrote:

Surely an ISDN box is bigger, and has 'NTE8' on it? (he says, quickly
checking on the wall).

Or am I missing something?
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Lurch asked:
No, but the previous owner might have.

It seems there was also a (now redundant) BT NTE9E Digital Access box with
the NTE5.
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Mike

On 27/08/2007 14:26, mlv wrote:


As Lurch suggested, the CA/CB/CS names do sound like the contacts on an
old highway faceplate. Have you got (or did you used to have) a large
NTE9 somewhere else?
http://www.mckerracher.net/highway/

Alternatively does it look like
http://www.clarity.it/telecoms/adsl_faceplate_mod.htm
or
http://www.solwiseforum.co.uk/downlo...psplitters.pdf

On 27 Aug 2007 13:43:19 GMT, "Bob Eager" <rde42@spamcop.net> mused:

highway services. The NTE8 would be for ISDN2 and ISDN2e.

Yep, unusually!
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Regards,
Stuart.

On 27/08/2007 15:15, Lurch wrote:

If you wanted the NTE9 remote from where the master socket originally
was (either for convenient computer access, or if no mains outlet was
nearby the master socket) the incoming line was looped to where you
wanted the NTE9 and the analogue port of the highway got looped back
down to where the master socket used to be.

mlv wrote:
It's the faceplate used for the soon to be defunct Home Highway & I'm
afraid it's as useful as a chocolate teapot for anything else...

Andy Burns wrote:
Yes, it does seem that there used to be a NTE9 associated with the NTE5.

Is my NTE5 lower faceplate usable for hardwiring phone extensions and ADSL
devices, or should I buy a new one, such as the ADSL Adaptor for BT NTE5
offered by:

<http://www.clarity.it/xcart/product.php?productid=16134&cat=262&page=1>

Thanks.
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Mike

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:31:06 +0100, "mlv" <mlv7@googlemail.com> mused:

if the router is going to be located by the master socket.
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Regards,
Stuart.

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:15:59 UTC, Lurch <myrealname@sjwelectrical.co.uk>
wrote:

Yes, we had one of those once. Of course.

Mind, someone (I forget who it is) will be along in a minute to say that
HH/BH was not ISDN really...!

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Lurch wrote:
Just how is it usable? The plug on the back is passed thru to the
Blue IDCs so the socket is dead unless fed back from the NTE9

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:36:10 +0100, "Kraftee"
<kraftee@b&e-cottee.me.uk> mused:

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Regards,
Stuart.

Lurch wrote:
No, I'm not. The NTE5 actually resides in my 'useful bits' box, waiting for
me to get my act together and sort out my broadband installation. It's been
there a while!

I intend to use the NTE5 backplate with a new, filtered lower frontplate
that includes IDCs for hardwiring of both the phones and ADSL devices.
--
Mike

Lurch wrote:
& how are they using something which is not usable?

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:59:24 +0100, "mlv" <mlv7@googlemail.com> wrote:

That will work.

As a bit of background BT had a policy at one stage a number of years
ago of just abandoning Home Highway equipment on cessation of the
service leaving the possibility of non standard "Digital Access"
faceplate being left in situ that still requires the HH box to be
physically connected to provide basic POTS services to the NTE5
faceplate and the extension wiring as the A and B legs are routed from
the faceplate, through the HH box and back to the faceplate.

BT wanted to charge for removal of the surplus HH equipment and so a
relative asked me to remove it at the same time as altering some
extension cabling as it was cluttering the room.

If you hack off the HH box by removing the excess wiring in the NTE or
simply unplug the RJ11 from the bottom of the HH box the "Digital
Access" front plate becomes completely nonfunctional for both for
extension wiring and iirc for directly connected instruments.

To get it back to a usable state you need to make some non standard
connections between the idc connections on the back of the faceplate.
From memory (it's about 3 or 4 years since I had to do this) these
would be A & B to 2 & 5. Distinctly a bodge but I know the one I did
many years ago is still working!




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On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:40:37 +0100, "Kraftee"
<kraftee@b&e-cottee.me.uk> mused:


I don't fucking know. If it;s impossible to do so just say so, rather
than all this accusational finger pointing and question asking.
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Regards,
Stuart.

Lurch wrote:
you just dug yourself into that one....

Mike wrote:
Thanks Mike, the background info was interesting and tied in exactly with
the BT bits that I have acquired.
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Mike (mlv)