BT fitted me a nice new NTE well happy

[craney13]

Cool thanks for clearing that up mate much appreciated

[RUNITDIRECT]

We did say back then it was short sighted NOT to have the provision for ADSL filtering in the XNTE but that would only complicate matters!! Funnily enough it has the provision for two lines, how many homes have that now?! (commercial still has DP's for multiple lines in so XNTE's are not used there).

[craney13]

I personally hate the idea of the XNTE but i can see why BT install them for the purpose of not having to "go into the home" its just annoying when ISP's ask you to connect via the test socket and of course you dont have one and some of them dont seem to understand.

I would love to be able to have infinity one day, its live in our exchange and there is a cab round the corner about half a mile but i was informed its not in our route . The guy told me to register interest on there site which i have done as he says its down to demand really what cabs are upgraded. Im tempted to go round our new estate and maybe post a note to everyone to register there interest in it as a brand new estate with a max of 1-3mb is just poor

[Scubbie]

...The guy told me to register interest on there site which i have done as he says its down to demand really what cabs are upgraded. Im tempted to go round our new estate and maybe post a note to everyone to register there interest in it as a brand new estate with a max of 1-3mb is just poor

If there are any people who are interested, then it would certainly not be harmful to encourage everyone to register their interests on BT's site.

It doesn't commit you to anything and in any case you could always sign up with another ISP to get a fibre based product.

[craney13]

Just thought id up a piccy of the NTE5 they installed for me



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Im pretty sure its a filtered faceplate he said that the broadband would only work from this socket

[IWasNotTheEnemy]

Yes, that's a filtered faceplate. Hence the separate phone and modem points

[RUNITDIRECT]

That is correct, BT only supply the 3 way version which means the BB will only work from that socket (which is why they do the NTE2000 extension kit!). You can get a 6 way version made by the exact same people with BT Openreach branded instructions should you ever need to move the router and want a hard wired extension off the back.

[craney13]

Cool thanks runitdirect & IWasNotTheEnemy for your input.

Runitdirect- I must admit when i saw him punching the wires into the 3 idc terminals i could have sworn he only put 3 wires(white/blue, orange & blue/white) in i dont know where the other 3 wires coming directly from the external XNTE went? im guessing the 3 i saw him punch in were the extension wires daisy chained for the other 5 sockets. Is there another terminal on the filter somewhere that i didnt see him do? i saw there is a test socket now on the filter would the wires coming from the XNTE have been connected behind there?

Thanks again sorry if i sound kinda confusing here

[RUNITDIRECT]

Yes, the wires for the line are one pair, these connect to A & B on the rear of the NTE5.(although the XNTE has the bell wire you do not need to connect this as you are fitting a second master) Only extension wiring connects to 2,3 & 5 on the rear of the ADSL faceplate.

[craney13]

Oh right cool thanks for clearing that up mate, i must of missed him connected wires to A+B on the faceplate, mind you if he was to have connected the wires from the XNTE and the Extension wires into the idc connecters 2,3 & 5 just like they were on my old bog standard socket that would then mean that socket is unfiltered right? and the broadband would work on any socket within my house?

Thanks again