Moving my router...

mugpunter1970

For years I have used my router off a secondary phone socket [i.e not the main socket as recomended] have never had a problem with connections.

Now, as more of my devices are wireless, I decided to move the router beside the main socket and it wont work

Broadband and wireless lights just flash furiously while internet light wont illuminate at all.......have screwed the faceplate off and hooked it up to the engineers test socket and am getting a connection now, but am afraid to interfere with the wiring lest i lose connection to the house altogether....anyone any ideas what might be causing this??

kwikbreaks

From the description the only possibility that I can think of is that the faceplate itself is faulty.

The phone socket on the front of a standard faceplate should connect directly to the inner socket so if the inner works and the normal one doesn't it suggests there must be a discontinuity in the faceplate or some damage in the socket preventing the connection. Always assuming there is no short circuit in the extension wiring.

Does a normal phone work with the faceplate fitted to the base?

mugpunter1970

Just jiggled about till I got it working, though the speed from it about a third I was getting from the other socket, will give it 24 hours of speed tests and see if it improves any then move the lot back upstairs I think.

On demand and my media streamer seem unaffected but wireless to pc and phone pretty poor...

Gordon_Hose

If you don't have any other phones plugged into extensions around the house then just plug your router into the test socket and leave it there.

mugpunter1970

Tried that too, no joy speeds are still terrible.....moved router back upstairs with pc downstairs i.e further away from router and speeds are 3 times better, so think will leave things as they were.

House phone works grand from the faulty face-plate

Curious set up though...

JJ_Egan

Smells like a wrongly connected master socket .

mugpunter1970

I think so, wouldn't be confident enough to try and re-wire it either, the secondary socket I think is connected from wires behind the master socket leading upstairs and that must be why am getting better connection from it