Newish house - no master phone socket?
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We've been having a few broadband issues of late with the DSL connection dropping out, so I've been trying to find the master socket to plug the router into the test socket.
However, for the life of me I can't find one. The house was built in 2006, and I've found where the telephone wiring enters the house (from the ground near the front door). It goes through the study wall, but there isn't a phone socket in the study (there isn't even a socket on the other side of the wall, and it appears to enter the wall roughly behind the skirting board. I've also taken every socket fascia off and none of them have any of the resistors or ring capacitors on any of them. Nor is there a grey box on the outside of the house, the wires from the ground are just crimped to the wire from the house.
Is it possible for a house not to have a master socket at all? Or am I going to have to knock a hole in the wall to trace this wire?
However, for the life of me I can't find one. The house was built in 2006, and I've found where the telephone wiring enters the house (from the ground near the front door). It goes through the study wall, but there isn't a phone socket in the study (there isn't even a socket on the other side of the wall, and it appears to enter the wall roughly behind the skirting board. I've also taken every socket fascia off and none of them have any of the resistors or ring capacitors on any of them. Nor is there a grey box on the outside of the house, the wires from the ground are just crimped to the wire from the house.
Is it possible for a house not to have a master socket at all? Or am I going to have to knock a hole in the wall to trace this wire?
It is possible not to have a standard looking BT master as so long as one of the sockets has the capacitor to deliver the ring, if you take all of your sockets off I'm sure you will find one with the capacitor (little barrel type tube thing) and that will be your master. Failing that try the socket closest to the incoming line, normaly coming in over head or from under ground with a grey capping over it.
Paul
Paul
The property,if built in 2006 would have had a master socket..someone could have messed about with sockets,but the line will not ring in your home without a master socket,with a capacitor in situ.
Just create your own socket,either bribe a BT engineer or get one from elsewhere and fit it at the first incoming wire point after the crimped external connection outside.
Then wire the rest of your points as extensions.
Just create your own socket,either bribe a BT engineer or get one from elsewhere and fit it at the first incoming wire point after the crimped external connection outside.
Then wire the rest of your points as extensions.
Yea, as I say the wire comes in from under ground, and has grey plastic capping over it. There are only two sockets downstairs, both about 15m (direct line) away. Nothing is close to where the wire comes into the house. I've taken both the faceplates off the two sockets downstairs and neither have any capacitors. I'll add that all the sockets in the house aren't the normal cheapy white plastic jobbies - all are metal.
The other 'nearest' socket will be the one in the room directly above the study, my room. I'm looking at the insides of that socket right now and again, no capacitors.
It's really baffling me, could well ruin my weekend if I can't find it soon!
EDIT TO ADD: I'm currently using a spare router and filter I had (Virgin messed up and sent out two), but it hasn't made any difference, in the normal socket, or the two downstairs.
The other 'nearest' socket will be the one in the room directly above the study, my room. I'm looking at the insides of that socket right now and again, no capacitors.
It's really baffling me, could well ruin my weekend if I can't find it soon!
EDIT TO ADD: I'm currently using a spare router and filter I had (Virgin messed up and sent out two), but it hasn't made any difference, in the normal socket, or the two downstairs.
Ah, then I'm at a bit of a loose end. 
The house is a bit of a T shape, with that wire entering the house in the top left corner of the T. The other two phone sockets downstairs are effectively at the bottom of the T and at the top right of the T, definitely no sockets in the room in which that wire enters. I've had both of the downstairs sockets open and both are just ordinary sockets (in fact I've had all the sockets open).
The house is a bit of a T shape, with that wire entering the house in the top left corner of the T. The other two phone sockets downstairs are effectively at the bottom of the T and at the top right of the T, definitely no sockets in the room in which that wire enters. I've had both of the downstairs sockets open and both are just ordinary sockets (in fact I've had all the sockets open).
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