Faceplate help!

[harj]

I've been reading around here for a while and eventually plucked up the courage to try and remove the front plate and try the master socket.

However, I removed the front plate and it was just a load of wires behind! There was no front plate and I have noticed there is no bt logo on it either! House is around 20-25 years old, should I have a master socket, and if not how can I get one?

Cheers

[harj]

Also, let me add, that there is a seperate telephone socket in a bedroom upstairs, and from that an extension is run with another socket next to my laptop from which the broadband is connected!

current stats are:

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4095 kbps 792 kbps
Line Attenuation 47.0 db 26.5 db
Noise Margin 7.6 db 9.5 db

Should I be receiving better speed? Thanks

[RUNITDIRECT]

Can you post up a pic of what you have? You can easily get an NTE5 but officially you are not supposed to replace what is there, plenty of people do this though. Is it feasible to run a new extension from the master socket location to where the router is?

[harj]

I've put it back together for now!

I literally unscrewed it and there was a hole in the wall from where I presume the main wiring was wired to my telephone socket, loads of wires!

[IWasNotTheEnemy]

unless it looks like this...



then you don't have a test socket (the one inside the socket after removing the bottom section)...in which case age of wiring might be holding you back...

[RUNITDIRECT]

Sounds like you haven't got an NTE5, best solution would be to fit an NTE5 and run an ADSL extension to where your router is, failing that fitting the latest generation NTE5 with or without the NTE2000/2005 faceplate will probably improve things.

[harj]

It definately isn't one of those, there is no 'bottom half' to remove so to speak!

Is it easy to fit an NTE5 from the current setup or does it need an engineer? And looking at the stats, do you think its worth it? Will i get an increase in speed?

Thanks

[Isitme]

With your internal wiring sorted out, you may get 6-7Mbs. Unfortunately, without being able to get a reading from the main line in,ie, the test socket, no one could say for sure. If you feel up to it you could disconnect the extensions at the master socket, then do a test. Removing the ring wire from terminal 3 on the master socket may give you an immediate improvement. It is not required when using filters.

[RUNITDIRECT]

It definately isn't one of those, there is no 'bottom half' to remove so to speak!

Is it easy to fit an NTE5 from the current setup or does it need an engineer? And looking at the stats, do you think its worth it? Will i get an increase in speed?

Thanks

Yes very easy, two wires to connect! As stated technically you are not supposed to but you are unlikely to get into any trouble. BT/Openreach only get upset when someone fits the incorect type of socket. The only way to find out if your stats would improve would be to try it, as you have extensions running to where your router is the chances are the NTE5 that we sell with the bell wire filter would improve things.