Recent content by jjmm1985

BIG UPDATE The internet is finally working. Turned out it was the LLU tie pairs. I'm hoping to get a rebate off this month in which we've been charged for internet but haven't had any. Thank you all for your help to date, it has been greatly appreciated. Thankfully I never had to use...

An NTE5B has been placed where the PSTN line jack box used to be. We are with Be Broadband, however it is still not working, even through the test socket. Is it at all true in me thinking that by using a phone without a filter, you should be able to in some respect 'hear' the ADSL coming...

I bought a krone tool but have not yet used it. This morning an engineer came round and replaced the thing in picture 1, with (by the description given over the phone by my housemate) an NTE5B. However there is still no DSL available via the LJU in picture 3. He's had to go to work so...

A quick googling shows me that a krone/kroning tool has something to do with Cat5, which is phone line wires if I remember correctly? So it's essential to get one of these in order to do this? is it like a fancy pair of pliars? Thanks again Lectrician, and for your quick reply

P.S. In order to temporarily disconnect the mentioned wires, is it just a matter of breaking the connection of the orange and green wires, and leaving the blues in their place?

Thank you all, kindly, for your replies. Especially Lectrician :P This may sound like a stupid question, but I haven't rewired a phoneline before; firstly do I require a soldering iron, and secondly how do I prevent electrocution? Or is it the case that the voltage is so low that there...

Hello all Long story short, we cannot receive the be broadband we signed up for. Inspecting the phone line, we don't have a conventional master socket. There are two black boxes (1 and 2), and after that two normal sockets (3 and 4). According to this page http://www.buzzhost.co.uk/nte5.php...