Take a look at the lead from your broadband router. The plug at the end normally has two adjacent gold pins. We need to get the “A” and “B” signal to them. Don’t worry – we will. A good idea. Corded phones will keep working when the power goes off, unlike cordless. This is useful for the infirm and elderly who would not be able to diagnose power faults, restore service, and may well be distressed. But if you are in the mood to change your old NTE5, then it won’t do any harm. The whole broadband thing constantly amazes me. I’m astounded that it ever works at all. I would suggest getting one. I can even fit it for you (or find someone local who can) if you get in touch! ! Hi Rob, I went through your blog and foundb very useful and informaiton that I need. I have a question though.

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My uncles house: Line comes in upstairs, newish Nte5c/Mk4 fitted there, 2 voice extensions run from that. He just bought bb and the extension downstairs wont run the bb (understood as hes trying to run it off an old style extension with a plug in filter). No. The “A” and “B” refer to the 568A and 568B protocols of cable termination for these modules. There is a difference in where the oranges and greens go under each protocol. This is abbreviated to “A” and “B” on the module pins labelling. I am down to an avaerage of 17mbps speed now with the new faceplates and around 20mbps with the old filter. One can connect the ATA voice signals to the home telephone wiring, but it means some modificationsOpenreach out again – apparently last engineer did not crimp the pairs properly – new down lead, line reset, 39 mbps.

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This sounds sensible, as it eliminated Openreach raising any query whatsoever. Not that they probably would. By the way, there’s no “law” to break. I’m due to blog on the risks and potential penalties soon. Get their tea/coffee preference and specification correct, and buy premium biscuits. Make sure they have room to get at everything. You may get a kindly one who will fit one. On the other hand, they should fit one as a test point to their network anyway. I have a question though. So, I bought this new house and it had no master box (or was removed with wires disconnected). Tool-less Insulation-Displacement Connector (IDC) wire connection for both network and home wiring.

An extensive guide to how you can power your broadband router in the event of a power outage, as well as other tips for keeping things running during a power cut.