Should a master socket have a dial tone

snab

osaddict wrote: »

No to all three questions, I've not looked at the master socket just yet. I guess my coil up method, if I can pull it through, would mean I could mess with the master socket later if I needed to...

I guess finally, if you don't actually have a contract with any provider for a line, its neither here nor there whether there is DT or not. It's not yours!

So, if you remove all the extensions/ cut them, whatever and it causes an issue at the NTE then you have no problems. By that, I mean when you do go down the road of picking a provider then they will commission an install for you, that install gets you an hours* worth of work up to the NTE. So if its in the wrong place for you, faulty whatever then the installer will either move it to where you want within whatever time he has or fix/ replace the existing one.
He wouldn't necessarily reconnect an extensions.

Ultimately if you don't have a current line under contract you can do what you want with your extensions without having to worry about any adverse effects on the NTE and line.
However you're not supposed to move or open the main NTE.

Hope that made sense.

*The hours worth of work depends on provider, some will give more time others won't so the max time allowed is an hour.

esuhl

snab wrote: »

Ultimately if you don't have a current line under contract you can do what you want with your extensions without having to worry about any adverse effects on the NTE and line.
However you're not supposed to move or open the main NTE.

What's an NTE? The only definition on Wikipedia is for "Network Termination Equipment", a kind of device that acts either like an ISDN "modem" or a switchboard for an client-side phone network, neither of which sound like the kind of things an average home user would have...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_termination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_equipment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_adapter

osaddict

I guess he means the master socket, that's what I was talking about. I think I've only heard the term NTE when I was getting a fibre install at work when I used to be a sys admin

snab

esuhl wrote: »

What's an NTE? The only definition on Wikipedia is for "Network Termination Equipment", a kind of device that acts either like an ISDN "modem" or a switchboard for an client-side phone network, neither of which sound like the kind of things an average home user would have...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_termination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_equipment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_adapter

Sorry, NTE is Network Terminating Equipment.

The official name for your 'master socket' is an NTE5A.