Master socket help

[chromiehomie]

Hi all, just bought my first home and the socket was all disassembled. I'm getting my broadband sorted on wednesday i believe (was vodafone at my previous house so just getting switched) and im not sure about how the wire it up. 

So a) does this look/wired like a master socket

b) where do the rest of the wires go?!

Thank you in advance

[BandOfBrothers]

Hi @chromiehomie 

This is the socket in my house.

Ignore the larger one to the left as that's what was originally fitted by Bt for fibre.

As for wiring up I'd suggest to speak to Bt and they'll advise accordingly.

I'm not an electrician or Part P.

[Anonymous]

Yup that is correctly wired up for a master socket, all you need is those two wires connected.

It looks as though at some point in the past there was an extension wired in, but it's common with modern wireless handsets not to use the extension, and when you get broadband to remove the extension connection so as to cut down on interference.

You will with that master socket have to use one of the supplied microfilters though as I don't think you can get a *reliable* filtered faceplate for it (which is the neater solution). 

Hopefully, it'll be as easy as plugin and play!

*I say reliable because you can get filtered faceplates for that style of socket, it's just finding them, and if you order from eBay it's pot luck on the quality!

[chromiehomie]

Thank you for the info.

So if its just the orange and white wires need to be connected, how does the connection occur between those connectors on the top plate and the bottom panel where the router will be connected?

[Anonymous]

Based on what I can see you'll get a microfilter with the modem/router which plugs into the faceplate phone socket and also acts as a splitter so you can have a phone and the modem router plugged in (different shaped socket) together.  If the faceplate already has two sockets on it (of differing types) then the phone should only fit into one, and the modem into the other.

*I should have considered earlier, that if the NTE5 faceplate that you have already has a splitter fitted, then in order to use it properly that splitter needs to be designed for VDSL (or G.FAST), the older ADSL faceplate can slow your connection down!