tel. master socket and broadband

[mnb]

i have a telephone master socket with a broadband splitter plugged in:the splitter is taking broadband and a landline phone.
1. is there some device whereby i can also plug in a "junction box" for tel extensions? Or do i have to start connecting inside the master socket?
2. can i perhaps use a cordless phone with this set-up?
3. there is also a round, black coloured old fashioned looking ringer next to the master socket, it's cable is not connected to the master socket - is this ringer irrelevant or a potential difficulty?

 

[Lectrician]

If you google you get them cheaper, but this is what you want:

http://www.clarity.it/acatalog/ADSL_Installation.html

Fits your NTE5a master socket. Didch your ADSL micro filter as this has one build in. It then filters all your extension wiring too.

Can you post a photo of the 'ringer'?

 

[TicklyT]

Plug-in ADSL filters / splitters are only designed to supply ringing current to one telephone, so adding 'plug-in' extension wiring after the filter might stop your phones from ringing.

A replacement ADSL filter like the one Lectrician linked to is the most satisfactory way of doing the job. Installation is quite straightforward. Those filters will support 'plug-in' extension wiring. Connecting wiring directly to the extension wiring terminals is also straightforward, and, for my money, a tidier looking job.

If you fit a 'plug-in extension kit' before your filter, you will also need a second plug-in filter at your extension socket, and the extra wiring may reduce the available ADSL speed.

I recently tidied up an installation with multiple extension sockets and plug-in filters, replacing them with a single NTE5 adaptor, and the ADSL speed leapt from about 1.8 Meg to over 7 Meg.

 

[mnb]

thanks both of you guys. For your prompt and expert replies.Food for thought.

Where do cordless phones fit into my present ser-up? Can they?

 

[Lectrician]

They are plugged in just as a normal phone would be...

 

[SteNova]

bigger version of what was recomended

phone in phone socket router in the other
extension wiring goes onto the numbered connectors on the back, 2 and 5 from memory
hard wired filtered broadband is on AB if you want to extend it from the master (not needed if router is next to master)

 

[SteNova]

3. there is also a round, black coloured old fashioned looking ringer next to the master socket, it's cable is not connected to the master socket - is this ringer irrelevant or a potential difficulty?

http://www.telephonesuk.co.uk/ lists most bt junction boxes bells etc...

 

[Lectrician]

extension wiring goes onto the numbered connectors on the back, 2 and 5 from memory
hard wired filtered broadband is on AB if you want to extend it from the master (not needed if router is next to master)

And terminal 3 if you want your phones to ring. (don't listen to folk who says it doesn't matter, they know nothing!).

It is also considered good practice to terminate the other pair used as the ringer on terminal 3 in the unused terminal 4.

 

[SteNova]

no wire 3 connected on mine, works fine

 

[Lectrician]

It will for some phones, but not all.

Not connecting it is wrong - plain and simple.

 

[TicklyT]

Once you have an ADSL filter as linked to above at the NTE5, terminal 3 may become necessary again, as you will have eliminated the 'plug in' filters that generate a local ringing circuit for each individual phone.

It is good practise to terminate the unused terminal 4 through the wiring, balancing conditions in the twisted pairs of the cable to reduce interference.

 

[Lectrician]

Concur 100%