12 Mar 2019 | Engineering |
Let’s get one thing straight first – I’m not selling anything! I’m an independent telephone engineer in The North East of England, blogging on the occasional industry topic. I fix, rather than “flog” these days. Fixing is better....
6 Mar 2019 | Engineering |
I’m a telephone and cabling engineer working in the North East of England. I spend some of my time cabling challenging places such as pubs and houses with data cabling. I’m often asked by private customers about wiring a house for ethernet (Cat 5e/Cat 6)....
30 May 2018 | Engineering, Home Phone Repair |
Moving your master socket and getting a bill. Sadly, it’s quite easy. Moving your master socket is easy. Your service arrives via two wires, and all you have to do cut, extend and re-joint your cable. Well, in theory, that is… The Official Line However,...
11 Oct 2016 | Engineering |
We’ve been doing telecoms site surveys since literally the end of the last century. And we’ve had to battle through telecommunications installation jobs that hadn’t been surveyed properly. So we know how important a good telecoms site survey is. And...
13 Apr 2016 | Engineering |
First of all, I’ve got to make it very clear that moving a BT Infinity Master Socket (or any other BT master socket) isn’t really something you should do. (Well, not officially…). It’s the equivalent of moving your gas or electricity meter....
18 May 2015 | Engineering |
Because telephone wires (the ones that connect your phones to the master socket in your house) are so small, people don’t seem to take phone wiring repair very seriously. The result is that people struggle to make even the most embarrassingly messy and...
