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    Phone cables

    Just moved into my new place and to save the £125 getting a BT engineer out, I thought I'd enlist the help of Hexus

    We have a cable coming from the roof that we've been told is the old phone cable - it's been cut though so there is no socket on the end. Does anyone know if we can just buy a phone socket from a hardware shop and rig it together?

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    Re: Phone cables

    Are you sure it's the phone cable... you don't want to go around cutting random wires

    More helpful guide here

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    Re: Phone cables

    BT outreach are resonsible (and own) all the network infrastructure up to and including the primary line termination connection - the master socket - and they should install that as subcontractors to whoever is providing the telephony (or broadband) service. Some electrical contractors do install those sockets (for example in new build houses) but the final connection rests with BT who may inspect the work. They will fit a BT branded NTE5 connection box.

    Thats the 'legal' position.

    In Practice...

    Yes you can get an NTE5 master socket and connect it yourself. Whether BT's records show the actual state of the line and whether they will provide service to that line is another matter. It partly depends when the line was last used, and who decommissioned it.

    If it was me, I would do what you are suggesting.
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    Re: Phone cables

    Well the line has been reactivated - i got the letter through today.
    It's simply a matter of having something to plug into my router.

    From what I gather the line was working with a 'NTE5' socket but when the old residents moved out they redecorated and cut the cable

    But cheers, I'll def. look into it.
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    Re: Phone cables

    Purely in the name of research (and not condioning or encouraging any act that may be technically illegal) you may find this link of interest.

    http://www.run-it-direct.co.uk/BTsocketNTE5.html
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    Re: Phone cables

    we have same issue in our new flat bt want £125 for a new line and it looks liike we are gonna have to pay it.

    if not i will have no internet by the weekend


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    Re: Phone cables

    Quote Originally Posted by danroyle View Post
    we have same issue in our new flat bt want £125 for a new line and it looks liike we are gonna have to pay it.
    See this thread for cheaper options

    http://forums.hexus.net/networking-b...cali-best.html

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    Re: Phone cables

    We're also having to pay £124 for a a new line (despite being able to stare directly at a British Telecom master socket and the drop cable it connects to). However (something I never knew), BT are able to spread the installation fee across 6 months of your bills, which (in our case) split between 5 of us, works out at about 9 quid each, much better than paying it all at once, and enabling us to get Be*, and really good speeds cos we're about 600 meters away from the exchange.

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