UK socket

Matthew1990

Matthew1990

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I've been having problems with pings as well as speeds of my broadband. I use the fast.co.uk. I am just wondering of the socket is the problem, it looks dodg to me, anyway, there is a pic. Could someone tell me if it looks allright???

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I've called BT, UK landline company and the said that that is not their property and I should solve this myself.....
 
Really I was going to post a laughing smilie

But its no joke, many people are killed by faulty power wiring, every year (especially with the do it yourself approach.

When your Internet/phone provider stated to "solve this yourself"
They meant call an electrician (as stated by member linkin93)

If this was some type of funny post, then its no laughing matter, and in poor taste
Posting threads like this could cause others to try to fix it themselves as well !!
Not a good idea, actually down right stupid.

Have a nice day :)
 
its hard to tell from that pic,
no i aint anything to do with BT but you can ask them to have a look
 
is that the phone socket in the wall? (i.e. the main socket where the phone etc... gets plugged into)...

If so, I believe it is BT's problem.

The house I live in now we moved into nearly 3 years ago, most rooms in the house have phone sockets, but none but the main one works... we were told by the builder that we needed to contact BT to solve it...

i wouldnt try and fix it yourself, and although it is not a mains connection, i believe it is now illegal to work on any wiring within your house (you have to get an electrician) ... althought i might be wrong about that.
 
Yes it is illegal, But there is no way for them to know.

I've sorted out the ring mains in my house, swapped out a fuse box and rigged up all the lighting in my room behind cavity walls, and also tampered with the telephone lines eliminating the ring line to lower static interference.

It was all safe and I looked up before I did this however, you can mess with your telephone line, I think that is actually legal, you cannot get shocked by the voltage going through the line when not ringing, you just need to find out how to correctly install it.

You could post a picture of the whole box so we can have a better understanding of the wiring. BT Master sockets aren't the most difficult of things to figure out, you'll easily be able to do it by googling. Just make sure you wire it back up properly otherwise your line will not work!

With a phone line, nothing will go bang, pop, nor will you see any sparks. All that'll happen is you'll have a non-working telephone line.
 
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I had to do something coz one day it stopped working, on google I searched that you only need to connect, blue/white and white/blue.
 
Matthew1990 said:
It's a phone socket, I wouldn't be touching live wires......:confused:
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there is only a very small amount of voltage that goes through the phones lines, i know for a fact its less than 12v, you prob wont ever feel anything if you touched any of them.
 
aviation_man said:
Let's not find out....
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oh cmon, in britain, if we don't know and we can find out, guess what we do: Find it out by any means :D

This is why we are good at engineering and americans suck :P

If turn off the mains and don't have anything to test if power is still going through, the tongue works just as well :P

As has been said, it IS BT's problem beacuse it is a phone line and everything to do with phones is BTs problem. If they still maintain that they can't do anything, get an electrician in to try to sort it for you.
 
The current taken by the ringer must be equal or less than 5 mA at 35 V ring voltage. The measurments are made using 25 Hz ring current frequnecy.

Ring detector must work on ring signal which is 44-58V DC summed with 25+-3Hz AC ring signal in voltage range 35-75 V.
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Just checked up on line, So. My mistake, if the phone rings an you're working on the line you will get quite a shock, although when no tone is running its harmless.

My advise is to unplug the connection to your first socket in the house. The BT Master Socket before doing any work on your line.

:)
 
You won't get a shock because the ~6volts running through the line, has extremely low ampage (Amps)
By the way, I thought that large pic was electrical power wiring, (not telephone data wiring) it looked like that
 
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