Sky User: How to remove the ring wire from your master socket

How to remove the ring wire from your master socket
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NewsreadeR on 16 July, 2009 13:53:00
 
If you have a telephone extension in your home, that you are using for your
router to plug into, and you have a BT NTE5 Master socket with a removable
bottom half, by removing your ring wire, you could possibly improve / gain on
your broadband speeds from your connection.
Sometimes this ring wire could cause unnecessay interference to your attenuation
and give you slightly slower broadband speeds.
The ring wire is only used for the older type of telephones, and as per its
name, was used for providing the signal to make your phone ring.
Removing the ring wire is a very simple task to do and is a cheaper alternative,
(with sometimes the same results) then purchasing an ADSL Faceplate and
subsequently fitting that. Click to read our review of ADSL Faceplates.
How to remove the ring wire from your master socket
*Locate your master socket	*Remove the 2 screws marked A and B	*Gently pull the
bottom half of the faceplate away from the master socket back box
Determining which wire is the ring wire
If you look at the image below, in our example we have 3 wires connected. Blue /
White, White / Blue, Orange / White
*Blue / White is connected to pin 5 of the bottom section of the
faceplate	*White / Blue is connected to pin 2 of the bottom section of the
faceplate	*Orange / White is connected to pin 3 of the bottom section of the
faceplate - This is the ring wire
Ring wire removed
As you can see from our image, we have now removed the Orange / White ring wire.
You could either gently pull this out, or cut with a pair of wire cutters. Be
careful not to damage or pull the other 2 wires as this would stop your phones
from working at the extension socket.
Now, just put the faceplate back into the master socket, and screw it back
together.
Log into your router to see if the stats have improved, to do this read our how
to get your Sky Router Stats help page.
For further help with your telephone wiring, please visit our Cabling and
faceplate help forums.
Tutorial pictures taken from stock kindly loaned by Run-IT-Direct