15 Jun 2020 | Home Phone Repair |
Moving your internet router? Yes, it’s possible. Typically, it’s near the front door, because that’s where your master socket is. It’s probably the worst possible place for it – no power socket, easily kicked around, tripped over, chewed...
18 May 2020 | Home Phone Repair |
What is fibre broadband? There no shame in asking this! Here are our Fibre Broadband FAQ, based on what Google tells us folks are asking.. “Fibre” is broadband arriving at your property by means of fibre optic cable. In the past, this was carried over...
1 Apr 2020 | Home Phone Repair |
What is it? It connects your house to the telephone pole, via the outside of a building. I recall seeing it first in 1969. It’s quite rare these days, and there’s not much information on-line. “Time for an “Old Grey BT Drop Wire – Some...
27 Apr 2018 | Home Phone Repair |
BT dropwire telephone cable – we shouldn’t really be talking about it, as it runs from the master socket onto the BT (more correctly Openreach) network. Of course, no-one ever gets involved with that side of the network, do they…? This blog, therefore,...
31 Mar 2017 | Home Phone Repair |
The BT Openreach New NTE5C Master Socket (with the Mk4 frontplate) has been available for some time now. As I’m a telephone engineer, who has dealt with master sockets for years, I thought I’d give a guided tour Before We Start… If you don’t...
