Hi all,

When we moved into our house about 9 months ago the telephone line was in a stupid place under the stairs, therefore I removed the master socket, rerouted the BT wire into the front of the house. However, I didn't have enough cable so I spliced it together with some excess cable I had with some tape (!) and bam it worked. Now, first off I did not know I was not supposed to mess with the BT cable or master socket, (the previous owner I reckon had too by the looks of things).

Telephone and BB has been fine until yesterday when the line was all crackly and the BB kept dropping every minute. I undid my botch job on the wire had broken at the join. Therefore, I bought one of those outside boxes for plugs etc (the waterproof ones), a junction box connector and some more cable(with 4 wires - orange, blue, white/orange and blue/white).

On the BT line as it was when I disconnected it there are 6 (or even 7????) wires: green, black, orange, white, yellow x3. When I first moved it I pressumed the orange and white were the ones I wanted as the yellows had been cut off and the green and black twisted together and folded away.

So today I connected the white and orange from the BT cable to my junction and my other cable to the juntion and reconected this to the A and B in the master. Phone line now works and so does the BB. However, since reading on the net (now BB works again!) I see that on the NTE5 switch the master is wired (I think) by the orange and white and the others are meant to be for the detatchable bit.

Therefore by question is thus - is what I did ok to do (in a practical sense)? Do I need the full 6/7 wires attatched to everything or is this just so the NTE5 detachable part is usaable? Also, my BB is only registering at 1mbps which is pretty slow, could this be due to the wiring (I cant remember what it was before unfortunately!)

Sorry, I know that is long and I know that I shouldnt have messed with the cable, I wouldnt have if I had known, but hindsight is great isnt it!!!!

Cheers

DRG

DRG, you naughty boy,

You should not ( ) move a BT NTE5 master socket under any circumstances, BUT as you have done it and it is working fine then OK.
The 2 or 3 yellow wires are only really to add strength to the BT drop cable and the four coloured wires are two for use and two as spare for a second line.

Just do NOT call out BT if you have a problem in the future, or at least, if you have to, say that it was like that when you moved in.

dave

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cheers dave, i feel like a right melon! i thought that something so simple could not require an engineer! I guess I better stop digging down to the gas main now;)

incedently, does it make any difference what wire goes on A/B or are they interchangable?

Sorry for late reply, I am on holiday and don't get on so often.
The two wires can be connected either way round, there is no problem with that.

dave

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cool thanks for your help BB speed has gone up too so must have just been time of day:)!

Could also be your line readjusting to its better signal strength, now that the connection quality has been restored. Sometimes takes a few days.