Hi there,

I'm moving into a new apartment next month and the apartment has not had an active line for some time, it's been disconnected. I've ordered a reactivation and paid the £125 fee. The activation date is next week.

Obviously, I want this line for ADSL..
So, the master socket is an NTE5 unit and I've taken off the NTE5 and discovered some really poor wiring and bad connections.
Now there isn't much wire left on this cable to strip back to clean unbent/twisted cable. So I decided to move the socket slightly lower in order to produce more of the incoming BT line for when the engineer gets here. I've bought a new NTE5 master and an ADSL filter/splitter faceplate to suit as I've also wired some cat6 from behind the wall which leads to my data cabinet.

Enclosed is a picture..

What I want to know is, am I in doggy doo for having done this? In all fairness, I think I've helped them out but I recently found out that I wasn't supposed to touch the master socket at all. All I've really done in reality is disconnect two wires..

I've included a picture for you all to see what I've done..
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/6...rsocketbl6.jpg

Thanks in advance!

The engineer would bring the faceplate and all the wiring they need, that why you pay them £125, on the question of the wiring nope you shouldn't have touched it.

The engineer may not mind, but bt would mind as it's tampering with their network in some case or another

i wouldn't worry about it too much, as it does look like you've exposed more of the cabling. as your getting a visit, like mentioned before the engineer will have the nte5.
it looks like armoured cable(bit of focus would have been nice) so you've done us a really big favour as if it was in a bad state then we may have had to go down the route of directing the feed onto the exterior wall(means digging up half the garden).