15 Jan 2025 | Home Phone Repair |
Keep Calm and Keep Browsing No master socket? – No problem! There’s nothing mysterious about them – they are just a socket! I recently removed a G.P.O junction box dating from the 1930s. Surprisingly, it was carrying high-speed, fibre-to-the-cabinet...
22 Dec 2016 | Home Phone Repair |
I’m often asked about phone extension wiring, usually when folks don’t want move their master socket . Elsewhere I’ve blogged on how to connect phone extension wiring together. But not on the importance of choice of cable. You might have “Superfast...
14 Apr 2016 | Home Phone Repair |
As a local independent telephone engineer, based in the Middlesbrough and Stockton on Tees area in the UK, one of my key jobs, on behalf of my customers is dealing with the dreaded ISP Customer Service Department. I am called by home users who have a problem with...
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...
