Can you help me understand this setup

thehorselady

Recently we changed our living area around and in the process of rewiring had the electrician rework our telephone setup.

At the moment my setup looks like this. My master socket is in the main hall, it is a openreach socket like THIS The electrician hardwired either cat5 or cat6 cable into the socket ran it across our ceiling and down into living area. There is a phone attached to this master socket but we have to use a microfilter otherwise there is an awful interference/noise on the line

In our living area there is a socket like THIS (I’m not sure if it is this particular model) anyway it has an ordinary phone socket on the right hand side and on the left there appears to be the cable that was hardwired into the master socket. At the end of this cable there is a jack, I don’t know which type but it will plug nicely into any of the Ethernet ports or the broadband and wan port.. It doesn’t fit into the broadband and DSL port.

At the moment we have a microfilter set into the phone socket end and have a telephone and our BT Home Hub 4 connected to it. I am reasonably pleased with the speed I’m getting. I’ve just recently signed up for BT’s Unlimited Broadband + Weekend Calls.

As mentioned above there is also a microfilter on the master socket. That’s all the connections we have.

So I’m wondering what this wire and rj45 socket is for (take it that it is rj45) and what it’s there for? At the time of rewiring my old Netgear router had died a death and we hadn't yet signed up to BT

Help me understand this setup.

AndyPK

Maybe the electrician purchased the wrong chrome face plate.

Would u like the route by the first socket ?

thehorselady

AndyPK wrote: »

Maybe the electrician purchased the wrong chrome face plate.

Would u like the route by the first socket ?

Hi Andy, doubt if the spark picked the wrong faceplate, he's been in the game for a long time and comes well recommended by an architect friend who uses him all the time. But I am wondering if it is the wrong jack he's fitted that might make more sense 😕

Can't put the router by the main phone it's an old house and we've no power point there.

Rubidium

This is the second time that you have posted this description of your setup and it doesn't make any more sense this time!

Post some pictures to get meaningful help.

jem16

thehorselady wrote: »

At the moment my setup looks like this. My master socket is in the main hall, it is a openreach socket like THIS The electrician hardwired either cat5 or cat6 cable into the socket ran it across our ceiling and down into living area. There is a phone attached to this master socket but we have to use a microfilter otherwise there is an awful interference/noise on the line

So presumably he didn't fit a filtered faceplate then at the Master socket? That would have been best as it would have done away with the need for filters. Also it would have allowed a cat5 cable to be run from the DSL part to the living room if that's where you wanted the hub to be.

This is a filtered faceplate.

https://www.claritybroadband.co.uk/telecoms/adsl_faceplate.htm

Other option would have been to install an RJ45 socket in the hall and then run the cat5 cable to the living room. So hub in the hall and then a patch cable to the PC or switch if you wanted to run more than one thing.

AndyPK

Generally the idea of fitting a filter plate to the master socket, is so that the route can be plugged in there.

However the OP has said they do not want that.


When I said plate, that meant front or sockets or jacks

jem16

AndyPK wrote: »

Generally the idea of fitting a filter plate to the master socket, is so that the route can be plugged in there.

However the OP has said they do not want that.

Yes it can but it does give you the opportunity of using the IDC connections on the ADSL side to extend the unfiltered ADSL to another room.

Basically it's just a bit tidier as it removes the need for filters.