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)....
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,...
12 Apr 2018 | Home Phone Repair |
Moving your master socket seems to be a very hot topic for our blog readers. It’s actually a kind of “yes, but no” topic, rather than a straight answer. My simple opinion as a local telephone engineer is:- “Yes you can (unofficially)”...
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...
