Hi all

My phoneline part of my master socket has broken. My broken socket looks like this:

http://www.iq-hq.co.uk/dene/bt1.jpg

The ADSL part is fine and when a BT engineer came around to fix my wife's work line, he gave her a new plate to fix which has just the one socket (not the ADSL part)

So, I fitted it and intended to put a microfilter on it but that's where the problem lies. The cable that came out of the DSL part of the old box goes under wooded flooring into an office and the socket on that cable is too big to fit in the microfilter. It seems that the socket on the box in the picture above is RJ45.

The cable that went into the DSL box above is this:

http://www.iq-hq.co.uk/dene/bt2.jpg

Ideally, i just want to get the same faceplate as I had before so if anyone has any pointers i'd be very grateful.

Thanks

Dene

Solwise do the V1.0 faceplate

http://www.solwise.co.uk/adsl_splitters.htm

I'm tempted to ask though why whoever wired the modem up put an RJ45 plug on the end. A bog standard RJ11 will fit into an RJ45 socket quite happily. So if the lead had an RJ11 plug originally there would have been no need to change it.

That's the one!! Thank you very very much.

As for your second question, I have no idea but it'd have saved me some hassle if he hadn't.

Thanks again, much appreciated!

Dene

Oh and if you have any extensions wired off the faceplate don't forget to get the proper tool to terminate the wires into the IDC terminals (the blue block on the back of the faceplate). You can use a screwdriver but that risks damaging the contacts and rendering them useless. The tool is the rather odd looking yellow plastic gizmo further down the page. For the sake of 44p it's not worth bodging is it?

You can wire extension to pins 2 and 5 of the blue block. Only wire pin 3 out if any of the extension phones don't ring. Most modern phones don't need this connection though. These terminals are filtered so you don't need to use any filters on the phone or whatever is plugged into the extension socket(s).

If you need to extend the modem however use the two terminals labelled A & B. These are unfiltered. You will need a filter if you use a phone on the same socket as the modem if you use these terminals.