Should a master socket have a dial tone

osaddict

Guys,

If I get a simple corded phone should I hear a dial tone if I connect it to the BT master socket? - The house I have taken on used to have Virgin Media, I'm not sure if I should expect a dial tone or if I'd need to get the phone connected again (not that I'd choose Virgin Media). What about if I plugged it into the test socket, like this:
http://www.talktalk.co.uk/mobile/m/speed-checker/testingmastersocket.html

Any help much appreciated. I want to mess around with some extensions (not BT ones) and check that my messing doesn't !!!!!! up the phone.

maninthestreet

no dial tone = no phone line.

osaddict

Could no dial tone = phone line but knackered inside the house?

I'm trying to figure it all out, we're hoping when we move in we can port my girlfriend's Sky internet over, however, we have nothing in the house so I guess we'd need BT first too.

basill

My mum has just moved in to a bungalow with both Virgin and BT sockets.

Before we chose a phone provider the Virgin socket had no dial tone but the BT one did.

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osaddict

Guessing if I just want 'normal' internet then BT is where I need to start as every provider will require me to have a BT line to get it all going on... I wonder if I just phone BT and say this is my address, what can you tell me about your stuff and my house?!!

enfield_freddy

a virgin socket is completely different to a bt type socket , if virgin has been cut off , then nothing at the socket


by removing the front section on the master socket , you are disconnecting any internal house wiring .




if you want sky/talk talk etc then there should also be a BT socket AS WELL as the virgin one

osaddict

There's a BT socket in the hall, the master socket. If I go for the test socket do you reckon I'd expect a dial tone? I know the house was served by Virgin Media before, not that I can see much in the way of sockets for that (just some old NTL ones I've posted about in a different thread)

osaddict

Well my girlfriend (who has the sky connection at the moment) reckons sky take care of the line rental as well as the internet connection, so we can probably just do it all through them. Which would be easy I guess, well, I hope.

~Beanie~

If you have not signed up to BT and had a phoneline activated/connected then you won't get a dial tone. Or am I missing something?

osaddict

I wondered if the test socket would always have a dialtone as it's connected to the phone network, well, that was my thinking anyhow. But I wasn't sure if that logic was sound or not!

enfield_freddy

are you trying to test a BT type socket , or a socket supplied by virgin /NTL