Hi,

Telephone lines here are overhead and I'm trying to understand what purpose these boxes/sockets serve and if they would affect Broadband . Also, if BT would change / remove them.

From the 'pole' the line attaches to a bracket under the guttering upstairs. Then the line travels down the side of the house and enters the porch where inside there is one of these http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/p...tconnector.jpg and when opened up it resembles this (but cabled!) http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/p...T80A_wired.jpg

The wire then travels along to the inner door of the porch to this http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_2832-1.jpg and then through the house to a BT Master socket.

While the broadband speeds are reasonable and there is little if any noise on the line I still think there is more to come from the line and wondered the impact of these boxes/sockets.

Thanks,
John

Looks like that pictures that show the older black boxes are where the original line would have come into the house as that type of connection block would have had surge protection fitted and would have been the interface point between an incoming over head wire and your internal cabling.

I am guessing that the porch is a later addition to the house (well since the phone service was installed) and that since this the overhead cable has been renewed at some point, therefore the new interface point is now the picture that has the small white box conn (bt80a)

I would think that BT would only renew any of this if it was causing a fault, they would not replace anything just because you thought it was untidy, well they would but at a price.