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vanillasky
I have read in a few different places on the web that you must have a BT master socket (NTE5) as your first socket and then you can install secondary extension sockets from this.
I'm decorating the hall at the moment and have removed the master socket to paint the wall. In order for the telephone to still work, I have twisted the ends of the incoming phone line together with the line that leads to my first extension socket (I hard-wired this into the main socket some while ago) so, in effect I'm by-passing the master socket and my first extension socket is now the first socket in the house.
My phone still works (in and out) and my internet still works and seems to have suffered no ill-effects.
I know the NTE5 master socket has a ring capacitor and other filters inside but my question is: why must you have this master socket (apart from the legal reason that BT actually own the incoming line and master socket). To be honest, I'd much rather have a small sized extension socket in place of the ugly great NTE5 socket and what BT don't know about ain't gonna hurt them.
I'm decorating the hall at the moment and have removed the master socket to paint the wall. In order for the telephone to still work, I have twisted the ends of the incoming phone line together with the line that leads to my first extension socket (I hard-wired this into the main socket some while ago) so, in effect I'm by-passing the master socket and my first extension socket is now the first socket in the house.
My phone still works (in and out) and my internet still works and seems to have suffered no ill-effects.
I know the NTE5 master socket has a ring capacitor and other filters inside but my question is: why must you have this master socket (apart from the legal reason that BT actually own the incoming line and master socket). To be honest, I'd much rather have a small sized extension socket in place of the ugly great NTE5 socket and what BT don't know about ain't gonna hurt them.