Extension telephone socket

moneysaver1978

We currently have our broadband router connected to the master socket downstairs but we'd like to move the router to upstairs in the study where an extension telephone socket is.

I hoped it would be a trivial task of relocating the router, plug in and away but unfortunately, no internet connection.

Without a telephone, how can I tell that the socket is connected or working?

Photos below:





Do these wiring look right?



This is the entry to the master socket.

Is it worth asking BT/Openreach (or an engineer?) to relocate the master socket?

Ayr_Rage

Get a local company to have a look, a Master Socket move is well over £100 with Openreach.

Does you current master have just a single outlet with a separate microfilter ?

moneysaver1978

Ayr_Rage said:

Get a local company to have a look, a Master Socket move is well over £100 with Openreach.

Does you current master have just a single outlet with a separate microfilter ?

yes it is an old Master 5C socket.

Section62

Ayr_Rage said:

Get a local company to have a look, a Master Socket move is well over £100 with Openreach.

Only Openreach can (legally) move one of their master sockets.

ThisIsWeird

moneysaver1978 said:

We currently have our broadband router connected to the master socket downstairs but we'd like to move the router to upstairs in the study where an extension telephone socket is.

I hoped it would be a trivial task of relocating the router, plug in and away but unfortunately, no internet connection.

Without a telephone, how can I tell that the socket is connected or working?

Photos below:





Do these wiring look right?



This is the entry to the master socket.

Is it worth asking BT/Openreach (or an engineer?) to relocate the master socket?

You've shown us ONE socket, presumably the extension?
Any chance of a similar pic of the master? (Yes, I know it's the 'property of...')
And that outdoor JB - I presume the only used cable is the black one on the left? Does that definitely go to the incoming telephone wire?

Ayr_Rage

@Section62 I was answering this question

Without a telephone, how can I tell that the socket is connected or working?

Not advocating an illegal socket move.

Section62

ThisIsWeird said:

And that outdoor JB - I presume the only used cable is the black one on the left? Does that definitely go to the incoming telephone wire?

That looks like part of a cable TV/phone system, rather than anything to do with a BT line.

Ectophile

Without a telephone, how can I tell that the socket is connected or working?

Corded telephones can be picked up really cheap, and may be useful in case of emergency.

Yorkie1

Ectophile said:

Without a telephone, how can I tell that the socket is connected or working?

Corded telephones can be picked up really cheap, and may be useful in case of emergency.

I agree (I have one for just such a purpose), but only until the landline system switches from the existing wiring to over the internet, unfortunately

FFHillbilly

it's not clear what the pictures are supposed to be showing? 
if you aren't getting a connection at the slave point in the upstairs study it would imply a fault between maser socket and there.

grumbler

moneysaver1978 said:

Without a telephone, how can I tell that the socket is connected or working?
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Do these wiring look right?

Start with opening the master socket and checking that these wires are connected to it. Some wires are excessive as I see only two wires going from the black cable into the house.