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Which Face Plate
11-05-2015 12:55 AM
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Plan is to drill a new hole further away from the front door where I guess it's getting affected by damp which will also give me some spare wire. Question is, which boxes do I need? There seems to be a myriad of different boxes. I also have an adsl nation faceplate which was also furred up. Ideally I would like to go down the route of same filtered faceplate. Should also mention I'm thinking of getting fttc shortly so are certain boxes compatible for both? Any recommendations?
Re: Which Face Plate
11-05-2015 3:49 PM
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Otherwise, our master socket guide might come in handy, as might Maplin.
Re: Which Face Plate
11-05-2015 9:58 PM
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I'm sort of familiar with which box is which when it comes to adsl, nte5 back box with a filtered face plate or bb filter. When I look about now though I see lots of BT, supposedly genuine mk3 boxes which have both telephone and adsl sockets built in. Just not sure about compatibility.
Re: Which Face Plate
12-05-2015 1:09 AM
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Re: Which Face Plate
12-05-2015 9:10 AM
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Re: Which Face Plate
12-05-2015 9:37 AM
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So, yes, they are pretty much all compatible with both ADSLx and FTTC.
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Re: Which Face Plate
13-05-2015 8:58 AM
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He did say just put the nte5 on and if I opted for fibre to use the faceplate but if the faceplate works with both I may as well pop that on as well. He was in a bit of a rush so maybe he just got that bit wrong.
All in all result, my last worry would be, if I get fibre and the engineer comes to check the line he might say they didn't fit that line there but I'll jump off that bridge when I get to it. Hopefully they'll be reasonable about it once they checked it's done properly.
Re: Which Face Plate
13-05-2015 1:45 PM
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On the second point - the BTOR bod won't know, or care, where the NTE was originally.
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Re: Which Face Plate
18-05-2015 11:44 AM
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Finally, what about my router, I have the stock Thompson tg 85 that PN provide. Was going to mount this on wall next to socket but will I need a different one for fibre?
Re: Which Face Plate
18-05-2015 9:46 PM
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The box you have now is a combined ADSL modem and router (amongst other things too) which is commonly called a "router". When you switch to FTTC, BT will install a VDSL modem and PlusNet will supply a fibre router.
...unless by the time you switch to fibre and things change so that an all in one unit becomes standard. There's lots of discussion around about this, but no fire yet!
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Re: Which Face Plate
30-05-2015 9:52 PM
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Re: Which Face Plate
31-05-2015 8:49 AM
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If you have a choice in position for your new NTE5A it wants to be within a metre or so of a power point if you are going for fibre. Whilst you could have a "Data Extension kit" installed at a location of your choice - this is nothing more than an RJ11 socket installed with twisted pair cable within 30m of the master - but this too would need to be within a metre or so of a mains socket to power the Modem (or a combined modem/router at some future point perhaps).
As far as your current installation goes, I hope you aren't using any "telephone" extension cables between the master socket and the modem/router!
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31-05-2015 11:20 AM
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31-05-2015 11:25 AM
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Re: Which Face Plate
31-05-2015 11:37 AM
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Was thinking about fibre more because I'm going to cancel my Sky multi room and will be using catch up players more.
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