Relocating my Modem and Router - Faceplate question

[bathingape]

At present my master socket is in my living room, in an awkward position. A couple years ago I had my house cabled with Cat6 with the termination point being the garage where the patch panel and switch. Whilst doing this, the installer ran what looks like Cat5 or Cat6 from my master socket into the garage too.

I now wish to take advantage of this and move my BT Openreach modem and Asus router into the garage. My knowledge of BT faceplates and sockets isn't great. I've unscrewed the master socket and from the top of my head, terminals 2 and 5 have been punched in and are going into the garage. In the garage, the other end of the cable is waiting to be wired into a socket.

Is it just a case of wiring in a new socket/faceplate? If so, which one do I need?

At present I have this in my living room. I use a microfilter with this into which my modem goes.

[seawright]

Do you have separate wireless access points? If not is moving your router to the garage really a good idea? I'm assuming that there is a masonry wall between the garage and the rest of the house to provide fire protection. This will attenuate the Wi-Fi signal, especially if using 5Ghz, which will reduce connection speed and adversely effect coverage.

[bathingape]

Do you have separate wireless access points? If not is moving your router to the garage really a good idea? I'm assuming that there is a masonry wall between the garage and the rest of the house to provide fire protection. This will attenuate the Wi-Fi signal, especially if using 5Ghz, which will reduce connection speed and adversely effect coverage.

Coverage won't be an issue. Most of my devices are wired. Plus the thermolite blocks between the garage and rest of the house are rubbish. The ceiling is just drywall so that's fine. If it becomes an issue then I'll get extenders or AP's however my SmartThings and Hue hub currently reside in the garage with no issues.

[seawright]

You are not allowed to relocate the master socket (not officially anyway) as the cabling between the master socket and the distribution point is Openreach's property. Openreach would charge to relocate it.

As you have got a Cat5 or Cat6 cable between the master socket and the garage wouldn't it be easier (and cheaper) to leave the modem where it is and relocate your router to the garage using this cable to connect the two together? Alternatively you could fit a filtered faceplate and use the network cable as a data extension.

Should you insist on moving the master socket yourself check if there are any junction boxes (JBs) prior to the master socket and if so run good quality internal telephone cable from the JB to the master socket relocated in the garage. If not and the external wiring feeds directly to the master socket use a BT 80A JB to connect the internal and external wiring when you remove the master socket.

You could also fit a filtered faceplate and dispense with the microfilter.

[Isitme]

You could connect one of the pairs of the Cat cable to the AB terminals of the existing master socket and connect a new master socket in the garage. If you can get hold of a blanking faceplate to fit to the old master socket, this would prevent anyone using it and causibg interference, You should fit a VDSL filtered faceplate to the new master socket. These are much more dependable than the plug in type.

[RUNITDIRECT]

As your patch panel is in the garage it does make sense to have your modem/router and phone line there. However, rather than move the master socket you could use our patch kits to patch the phone line to the panel. Is the cable that runs from the master socket location to the patch panel terminated or is it just a loose cable?

[bathingape]

As your patch panel is in the garage it does make sense to have your modem/router and phone line there. However, rather than move the master socket you could use our patch kits to patch the phone line to the panel. Is the cable that runs from the master socket location to the patch panel terminated or is it just a loose cable?

I've now terminated it into an extension socket and my fibre seems fine and stable. What does your suggestion consist of?