I put the situation to my on-line forum of wise old engineers, and the verdict was that the Mk4 filtered faceplate (as used on the NTE5C) provides a high-quality filtered output via the front small socket but does not allow broadband service on other extension sockets. My question is: Can I run both the filtered and unfiltered signals through a single cable without loss of performance? There are all sorts of I-plate, ADSL, VDSL faceplates for sale to do the kind of projects you see written about here and elsewhere, so I presume I’m at complete liberty to screw any one of them to the MS? My first thought is that you should run an ethernet (Cat 5 / Cat 6) cable from the hub to wherever you need the service to be, and terminate it on an RJ45 socket.

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Any other split sockets (such as those with the "T" logo or BT "Piper" logo) should be compatible and an I-Plate may help improve your broadband speed or reliability. I can just about move it to an adjacent wall but I need to get the broadband signal to a different location. been told will never get fibre as on EO Line) Its not really feesable to trace cables as I don’t fancy pulling up floor boards etc (and being new build there are no “floor boards” per say). Inside the junction box the cables appear to join to the source cable from the outside of the house, however they also seem to join to the upstairs phone wiring (which I was hoping was connected to the master socket and wanted to disconnect it as it is no longer needed). The problem is that where the original is currently situated it means power leads crossing the doorway to the mains socket to power my router and base station for cordless phone.

Do I terminate this pair of cables directly into terminals A and B in the new master socket or do I connect them to the suggested facplate on the new master socket. On the other hand, with R6 still in place one could use a 2 to 1 adaptor in the phone socket and plug in a local handset.

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A master socket in a hallway where its difficult to place a router without trailing power cables and data cabling. You could even (in theory) joint in that box, then run an external-grade cable back through the same hole, out, and up the wall to the new location. Now if I understood correctly from your post, wheb I reome the face plate, I have filetred voice inside (2,3,5) and filtered data on the back of the front plate.

An Openreach engineer fitted one of these 5C Master Socket (with the Mk4 frontplate) and our speed went up to 5.

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A newer version (MK4) which is a VDSL Interstitial faceplate, which is curved and Openreach branded is also now installed by Openreach, will not fit old-style master sockets with screw fronts. If you have 2 extensions coming from your current master socket, note these will both need to be placed in the cam locks at the same time and on top of each other, make sure they’re not twisted as this will damage the IDC. Just to add, the external cable comes in underground and only has about 60cm showing before it disappears into the wall behind the connecting socket, so no real option of putting a joint there and running external cable up to the loft.

If you need to supply a voice service, cable from pins 2 and 5 on the maste socket and run a separate cable. These components are all on the back plate of the NTE5c – as is the extension wiring – but the extension wiring remains disconnected from the line until the lower half faceplate is plugged in. Do I just get my 2 strands of wire and punch them down into the A+B terminals alongside the existing ones?