Hi All
I have a new property with one of these new OpenReach External NTE boxes fitted. The house has been internally wired by the builder with 6 core wire phone cable.
I need to have (3) separate phone line pairs coming into the house from the External NTE box. I plan to use all 6 wires in the internal wiring to avoid having to run extra cable, as follows:
• Blue/White & White/Blue pair - for phone line (1)
• Orange/White* & White/Orange pair – for phone line (2)
• Brown/White & White/Brown pair – for phone line (3)
*I’m using the Orange/White Bell Wire as one of the pairs as the ADSL and modern phones do not require the use of the bell wire anymore.
Now the issue; from my understanding the External NTE box can only support feeding out of it (2) phone line pairs, thus only giving me 2 separate phone lines.
In my previous house – without this new type NTE box, I had 4 separate lines at one point being feed from the BT cable that ran up to my house with no line limitation issues.
Am I missing anything here or got my wires crossed (excuse the pun) regards this requirement? Will BT have to run a separate additional line out of the External NTE box to give me the 3rd line?
Any help on this wound be very appreciated.
I have a new property with one of these new OpenReach External NTE boxes fitted. The house has been internally wired by the builder with 6 core wire phone cable.
I need to have (3) separate phone line pairs coming into the house from the External NTE box. I plan to use all 6 wires in the internal wiring to avoid having to run extra cable, as follows:
• Blue/White & White/Blue pair - for phone line (1)
• Orange/White* & White/Orange pair – for phone line (2)
• Brown/White & White/Brown pair – for phone line (3)
*I’m using the Orange/White Bell Wire as one of the pairs as the ADSL and modern phones do not require the use of the bell wire anymore.
Now the issue; from my understanding the External NTE box can only support feeding out of it (2) phone line pairs, thus only giving me 2 separate phone lines.
In my previous house – without this new type NTE box, I had 4 separate lines at one point being feed from the BT cable that ran up to my house with no line limitation issues.
Am I missing anything here or got my wires crossed (excuse the pun) regards this requirement? Will BT have to run a separate additional line out of the External NTE box to give me the 3rd line?
Any help on this wound be very appreciated.