Moving the Phone socket

Pythagorous

Our main phone socket is located at the front door. We then have a lead running up two floors to the actual socket where the phone is plugged in. I would like to move this socket to be closer to the front door. The thing is BT have quoted £200 :eek:for what should be a simple job!?

Are there any other options available? I guess I could try it myself, but couldn't be bothered with the hassle and running the leads somewhere else may not be as neatly done!

Old_Git

I dont understand what you are looking .
.you have a main socket beside the front door and you are looking to move a socket
from two floors above to be beside it .Why cant you just use the BT socket beside the front door ?

Pythagorous

Old_Git wrote: »

I dont understand what you are looking .
.you have a main socket beside the front door and you are looking to move a socket
from two floors above to be beside it .Why cant you just use the BT socket beside the front door ?

Yeah I'm not even sure I understand myself

Basically I want to have the phone connection beside my PC (so I can plug in the ethernet directly to the pc). At the moment it seems that the master socket is at the front door, but then for some reason the line then goes up 2 floors and leads to another socket where the phone and internet modem currently go. This socket, where everything plugs in, is in my daughters nursery so not ideal! I guess it seems strange that there are actually 2 wall sockets!?

spike7451

Pythagorous wrote: »

Yeah I'm not even sure I understand myself

Basically I want to have the phone connection beside my PC (so I can plug in the ethernet directly to the pc). At the moment it seems that the master socket is at the front door, but then for some reason the line then goes up 2 floors and leads to another socket where the phone and internet modem currently go. This socket, where everything plugs in, is in my daughters nursery so not ideal! I guess it seems strange that there are actually 2 wall sockets!?

More likely the phone socket upstairs was at one point (or still is) the master socket & the one in the hall is/was the extension.

Is the one in the hall a NTE5?(See pic)



OR



If it looks like the second it's a 'Mini Master' which are'nt used much.
If the inners look like the one below,it's an extension.

macman

So why can't you just plug it in by the front door, whether it is an NTE5 or an extension?
If you want an extension moving, then any electrician or handyperson can do it for you for about a quarter of what BT will charge. But they can't move the NTE5.

Pythagorous

Okay guys, thanks for the advice. I just realised I made a silly assumption - doh! I assumed thta because the phone plugged in to a socket at the end point there were also other wires coming from the main exchange (is that right?) going into that socket, which isn't the case at all - as its basically just a socket attached to the wall.

So the problem is simply one of moving the extension line. Anyone know what the staple gun type device is called that can be used to secure the line to the wall via thiose little u shaped nails?

macman

Pythagorous wrote: »

Okay guys, thanks for the advice. I just realised I made a silly assumption - doh! I assumed thta because the phone plugged in to a socket at the end point there were also other wires coming from the main exchange (is that right?) going into that socket, which isn't the case at all - as its basically just a socket attached to the wall.

So the problem is simply one of moving the extension line. Anyone know what the staple gun type device is called that can be used to secure the line to the wall via thiose little u shaped nails?

No one has a clue, because you still haven't told us whether it's an NTE5 or an extension socket.
I suggest you try a hammer and some small cable clips-not a nail gun!

Pythagorous

My "is that right" comment referred to the main exchange, not the first part in bold!

It is called the main exchange isn't it?

So just to avoid any further confusion, yes it is just an extension, i.e. there are no wires from anywhere else coming in to that socket.

macman

If the socket is question is not a split faceplate NTE5, then yes it's probably an extension, which would have just one cable coming from the NTE5.