How to wire a phone extension from a BT Master socket UK Business and Residential Telephone Engineers in Uk, West Sussex, East Sussex, Sussex and Hampshire
Absolutely brilliant! Now all I have to do is work out how to get the extension from the master socket [downstairs] to my office [upstairs]!! A genuine heartfelt thank you for showing this.
Yes! Everything works fine. Just screwed two new broadband sockets in my living room, throwe 14 metres of cable and followed this video! You're amazing mate, you just saved me £130 FROM PAYING TO A "BT" Engineer!!! Guys - follow this video and listen to this Bro step by step! Thanks again..:-) 👍
I just call the owner of that channel, grate guy , find time for me Sunday and answer my questions without exuses. If u live close to him and have a problem with that kind of things dont be hasitate to give him a call . Unfortunately idiot's from TalkTalk wasn't bothered to come to fix my master socket . Thank you for your help
thanks for your reply, getting better speeds now, what i done was moved the router next to my phone socket in my hall, replaced the flat cable that connects to phone socket to router with cat6 cable, 18 inches in length, and then a 10mtr cats6 cable from router to desktop pc in bedroom , works a treat, speed gone from 3 to 14 on normal broadband... thanks again for help
many thanks,BT asked me £130+£75=£205 to connect its master in toilet to the next extension socket in the house. I challenged their sale staff for undisclosed hidden cost on order, but with no success. they said regardless of place they have connected the line to the property. I listened to your advice and follow your step by step instruction. it took me 30 minutes and I have done it!! thanks you saved me from this unfair charge. Again Many thanks,
Top job! Wish every tutorial on UA-cam was like this... Calm, concise, detailed, clear instructions with a clear view of what's happening. Helped me out amazingly as the instructions on my extension had brown, yellow, green, blue like a power plug even though the cable had the usual orange, orange/white, blue, blue/white. Thanks for the help. Ps... Don't buy an extension pack from Antsig! Bought from Homebase in the UK , as explained above the instructions were worse than useless, quality was poor, did the job but would advise anyone against buying it.
I cant believe BT charge £160 to do this. I am pretty useless at DIY but it took me less than 10 minutes to get my extension connected. Bought a punch tool on Ebay for £2 and job jobbed. Much obliged to you guv'
scott free thanks scott on my way to ebay, lol. i just moved over to plusnet waited 3 weeks for phone to connect then the extension phone no dial tone! after telling them i was disabled & rely on phone for health reason incl food shop, they said would cost me £160 for a engineer but he wouldnt set-up broadband i wish i hadn't bothered
Thanks for the video. It really helped with getting the connectors from the master socket cabled up to the connectors in the extension socket. I had looked at various websites to try and find this info but they were either incomplete or conflicted with the info on other sites.After watching your video, I had connected the cable up in a couple of minutes, faceplates back on and up and running - Thank you :)
Thanks very much great help. The orange no body use it any more so only two wiring and you can use any color you want but all the rest of the house socket must be follow this two color, if you used blue in pin number 2 and blue/white in pin 5 follow this number in the other sockets.
Finally found a very nice explanation of how to do that! Can I connect another slave socket from this extension socket? And if so how to do that? Connect in and out wires to the same place?
I know it’s getting a bit old. But half decent vid. The only pick up is don’t wrap the spare pare round a driver. This looks good it’s nice and neat but can cause issues with the broadband as it acts as an atenna. Cheers
hi watched your vid , very well done , i took of a phone line plate to find only two wires ,orange and a blue both in middle slots one each side , but phone dont work in it ,this is the extention side that i never got around to, any thoughts
That's a great neat job , can I ask , is eg. My mum's main sockets in the kitchen ,I want to run a box into the next room so i can buy her cordless phones near her plug DC socket ,,but WILL I be able this wiring method use a ADSL as I want to install IP cams ,,, or will that wiring be diff ..ps I notice you wired that as if you'd Drilled through a wall , ?? You put the wires behind,,,or will I need a ADSL faceplate and get it done proff with a guy like u locally ??
Great video but what do you do when the two sockets are far away from each other for example the master socket is upstairs and you an extension downstairs in the living room
depending on the house you shouldn't have to worry, if you just using it to take it up a floor you will not notice the difference in speed via ethernet (unless moving from wireless to ethernet then you will most likely see a huge bump in performance.
Can you add more than 1 additional socket as wires are already connected to master? Is it just a case of punching the wires down on top of each other in master socket?
Can you please tell me, if I want to do the opposite is it ok to just cut or disconnect extension wire from the master socket? I have the extension that runs upstairs that I no longer need. I want to get rid of it without calling BT. Will my phone line still work if I cut the extension wire? I have a separate broadband cable extension that connected to the master with just blue wire. The extension cable is connected like you showed in the video with blue and orange. Many thanks.
many thanks, saved my bacon after engineer left us with only hard wired phone upstairs working and nothing on other 3 (not his fault really, should have checked:)
No you shouldn't have had to have checked ! BT are supposed to be the bee's knees and this obviously wasn't the case in this instance ! You should claim some sort of compensation , say a months free line rental or more. Who fixed the fault ? Was it the same engineer ? And how long did they take to correct the error that they had made ? Inconveniencing you and your family who could not contact you ! Especially after your wifes receent visit to the hospital ! Now that I think about that particular event , it wouldnt be inappropriate to expect 12 months free service ! Hoping you take this further, Yours, Phil Barlow.
What is the maximum length of extension cable you can use? Is there a certain type of extension cable to be used if extending to outside building? Thanks
I have an old master socket from 1996 with six connections and not split like the one in the video. Please tell me the numbers and wire colours for connecting an extension. The master socket is currently wired with orange to number 5 and white to number 2
I just bought a new phone for my house. It's one of those old fashioned looking phones with a round dialler but instead of holes there are push button numbers. When I got it home I discovered that the wall plug is too small for the BT wall socket (it's the same plug that fits into the phone). On examination I see that the 'new phone' with the small plugs on each end only appears to have two live metal terminals on each plug end. Unlike the existing phone lead which has a small plug on the phone end and the larger one on the wall plug end, both have four live metal connections on each end. Any ideas what I need to do?
Will the length of the extension affect the speed of the slave socket for instance the speed of a router? if so is it possible and easy to move the master upstairs (router in office) and place a slave downstairs (just a telephone)?
In my property there are 4 master sockets (with lower plates) but I can only use one of them (phone and broadband). The other 3 are not working. How do i know which one is connected to the master socket as an extension socket?
Hi, i wired them as you have told in the video, according to the numbers in the extension box.i am not able to hear any sound after connecting my phone.the same phone works in the main bt line.do you think there is fault in the extension socket. The same extension socket was working 1month back.all of a sudden has become dead.what do you think i must do ?.please help.
i dnt know how to hotwire a rj11 phone cable into a master socket 5c because modem will not work will only work when connected to phone socket alone include filter will not work in filter
Hello i have a problem. TalkTalk did not connect my extension wires to the master socket. It looks like they have been joined together to the main phone wires. The master socket does not work when i connect a phone. Have they done it wrong? Thank You
Hi wonder if you could tell me the best way ?? My phone box is in my hall and i have a 10 mtr rj11 cable connected to it going to my router then to my pc in my bedroom. Would it be better to have the router next to my phone box in my hall and connect with a cat6 10 mtr cable to my bedroom , I have been told its always better to have the router as near to the phone box as possible, is this true...thanks..
Ron Jones Sorry, don't work for these guys, but yes, that 10m RJ11 cable is probably seriously restricting your speed and line stability. The 10M cat 6 would be ideal to replace it. The RJ11 cable isn't twisted pair and will pick up inteference :)
Ron Jones Sorry, one more thing, make sure you replace that RJ11 cable with a shorter one, just moving the router closer but keeping the long cable will be worse! :)
Thanks for your vid. Thumbs-up. Can I ask a question please? BT changed my master socket last month when I changed to fibre broadband, speeds are fine at ~38Mbps. But, when I removed the microfilters around the house, the extensions wouldn't ring any more although they work fine otherwise. I checked in the master socket and the BT installer only connected 2 wires to the extensions, so I presume the ring wire is disconnected. Is it safe for me to try just connecting the ring wire in the master socket, and any ideas why the BT installer left it disconnected? I could just leave the microfilters in place, as these also seem to contain the ring capacitor, but I wanted a tidy-up!
Thanks JoeyGames. Wow, your reply came through to my notifications today, a mere 8 months after you posted it! Maybe there are routers full of delayed messages, well done again Google!!
Hi, I want an extension socket like this in a different room than the master socket, for my broadband only to be hooked up to. Will the broadband (Fibre optic) speed be effected by being connected to the extension socket which then relays back to the main? Like slightly higher latency, ping, speed ect?
I was wondering if someone could help. I would like to add an extra socket to my living room and intend to run a cable from box in my computer room. However, I have a few questions: 1. What cable do I use and where can I buy it? 2. Where can I buy a new phone box? (not sure if that is what they are called) 3. Where can I buy a new micro filter as I would like to run an ethernet cable into it? Thanks for any help you can provide.
Not working for me. On the master socket I have orange in 2 blue in 3 and white blue in 5. The extension is set up the same way. The phone line just crackles and won't ring out or take calls. The broadband doesn't work either. I've tried two different extension sockets and no joy. Plugged directly into the master and things are fine. Any ideas?
i have a phone with RJ45 jack.. is it possible to be changed to a bt jack? Or if not is there any adaptor in the market? I can only find BT to rj45 but not the opposite (which is the one i want).Please help me if you can. Thank you
Hi there. I have done this but my internet is now not working. So I have taken back off is there a way that doesn't interfere with the internet. Please help.
My friend just moved in the box he is told is live but BT want £90 to send an engineer to look at it and change an £8 box. Looking at your video has no master box only one that looks identical to your slave box and I have checked everywhere there is no master? He wired it up - 1 Green White 2 White Orange 3 Blue White 4 White Blue 5 Orange White 6 White Green When he picks it up he can't here anything but when I call it rings and at his end it rings too, but when he answers he hears nothing and I still hear his phone tone ringing until I hang up
great video thanks, i want to plug my fibre router into an extsion socket downstairs in my house for better wifi range, do i have to buy a different socket? your help would be appreciated i will subscribe and share your video if you help. Thanks
Poorly produced. I can't see some of the actions. Sound quality poor. Poor advice on cutting back the sheathing - why not use the string to cut back the sheath instead of using a sharp blade and risk cutting the wires or a finger. How about some explanation of what the wires are before you start? You know your stuff but cannot TEACH. See what you have done, criticise the recording and do another one. Ask friends to tell you what is poor about it and then do another again.
Absolutely brilliant! Now all I have to do is work out how to get the extension from the master socket [downstairs] to my office [upstairs]!! A genuine heartfelt thank you for showing this.
Yes! Everything works fine. Just screwed two new broadband sockets in my living room, throwe 14 metres of cable and followed this video! You're amazing mate, you just saved me £130 FROM PAYING TO A "BT" Engineer!!! Guys - follow this video and listen to this Bro step by step! Thanks again..:-) 👍
I just call the owner of that channel, grate guy , find time for me Sunday and answer my questions without exuses. If u live close to him and have a problem with that kind of things dont be hasitate to give him a call . Unfortunately idiot's from TalkTalk wasn't bothered to come to fix my master socket . Thank you for your help
thanks for your reply, getting better speeds now, what i done was moved the router next to my phone socket in my hall, replaced the flat cable that connects to phone socket to router with cat6 cable, 18 inches in length, and then a 10mtr cats6 cable from router to desktop pc in bedroom , works a treat, speed gone from 3 to 14 on normal broadband... thanks again for help
Just wired a slave/extension socket after watching and it's all up and running perfectly. Great video.
many thanks,BT asked me £130+£75=£205 to connect its master in toilet to the next extension socket in the house. I challenged their sale staff for undisclosed hidden cost on order, but with no success. they said regardless of place they have connected the line to the property.
I listened to your advice and follow your step by step instruction. it took me 30 minutes and I have done it!! thanks you saved me from this unfair charge.
Again Many thanks,
Ali Davood Parsa only issue with that is if you have future issues bt won't touch it as they haven't installed it
Thank you so much. Open
Reach engineer disconnected my extension socket, I used your video to re-connect.
Top job!
Wish every tutorial on UA-cam was like this... Calm, concise, detailed, clear instructions with a clear view of what's happening.
Helped me out amazingly as the instructions on my extension had brown, yellow, green, blue like a power plug even though the cable had the usual orange, orange/white, blue, blue/white.
Thanks for the help.
Ps... Don't buy an extension pack from Antsig!
Bought from Homebase in the UK , as explained above the instructions were worse than useless, quality was poor, did the job but would advise anyone against buying it.
What a fantastic video, i needed to get an already installed internal socket working and this video has saved me hundreds of ££££'s Thank you
Thanks for useful information.
I cant believe BT charge £160 to do this. I am pretty useless at DIY but it took me less than 10 minutes to get my extension connected. Bought a punch tool on Ebay for £2 and job jobbed. Much obliged to you guv'
scott free thanks scott on my way to ebay, lol. i just moved over to plusnet waited 3 weeks for phone to connect then the extension phone no dial tone! after telling them i was disabled & rely on phone for health reason incl food shop, they said would cost me £160 for a engineer but he wouldnt set-up broadband i wish i hadn't bothered
Thanks for the video. It really helped with getting the connectors from the master socket cabled up to the connectors in the extension socket. I had looked at various websites to try and find this info but they were either incomplete or conflicted with the info on other sites.After watching your video, I had connected the cable up in a couple of minutes, faceplates back on and up and running - Thank you :)
Very nice presentation bhai ❤❤❤❤
Thanks very much great help. The orange no body use it any more so only two wiring and you can use any color you want but all the rest of the house socket must be follow this two color, if you used blue in pin number 2 and blue/white in pin 5 follow this number in the other sockets.
Finally found a very nice explanation of how to do that! Can I connect another slave socket from this extension socket? And if so how to do that? Connect in and out wires to the same place?
Great no-nonsense tutorial - Thanks
I had no idea how to do this before watching your video, Thankyou Sir, for taking the time to show us :-)
grateful
Great video.
What a top bloke liked and subscribed 👍
Very clear instructions. Thanks for the posting
SPOT ON, THANKS FOR YOUR HELP.
Answered all my questions. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you this helped so much bt wanted to charge me 150 to reconct the wires an engineer ripped out
Hey, great videos... can you please do a lesson on DP and how they are installed and operate on the poles?
Thank you very much : )
Great explanation thanks
You can buy that tool from maplins, amazon etc - I bought one a few months ago. :)
Perfect. Thank you
Great tutorial, thank you.
Good video. Thank you.
thank you. your instructions were suberb
I know it’s getting a bit old. But half decent vid. The only pick up is don’t wrap the spare pare round a driver. This looks good it’s nice and neat but can cause issues with the broadband as it acts as an atenna. Cheers
Thanks - worked a treat
saved me a fortune THANKS ;;;]]]
If I wanted to remove one internal line, can I just cut it? Or do I need to completely remove it from the masters box?
hi watched your vid , very well done , i took of a phone line plate to find only two wires ,orange and a blue both in middle slots one each side , but phone dont work in it ,this is the extention side that i never got around to, any thoughts
That's a great neat job , can I ask , is eg. My mum's main sockets in the kitchen ,I want to run a box into the next room so i can buy her cordless phones near her plug DC socket ,,but WILL I be able this wiring method use a ADSL as I want to install IP cams ,,, or will that wiring be diff ..ps I notice you wired that as if you'd Drilled through a wall , ?? You put the wires behind,,,or will I need a ADSL faceplate and get it done proff with a guy like u locally ??
Good video
Video = 10 out of 10 👍, i'm needing to do a similiar thing at home, one question tho, will the 3 wires be all i need for a phone AND router?
Great video but what do you do when the two sockets are far away from each other for example the master socket is upstairs and you an extension downstairs in the living room
Do I need to cut power to the house to replace an existing outlet?
Mines blue and white in the kitchen and smashed off I’m assuming the white will be red the others are all wrapped up
I've seen three of these now, I'm told the orange wire goesd in 1,3,5
I want to remove bt wire from my house back to the main box . How is this done ? Do I cut it or pull wires out
depending on the house you shouldn't have to worry, if you just using it to take it up a floor you will not notice the difference in speed via ethernet (unless moving from wireless to ethernet then you will most likely see a huge bump in performance.
Can you add more than 1 additional socket as wires are already connected to master? Is it just a case of punching the wires down on top of each other in master socket?
Can you please tell me, if I want to do the opposite is it ok to just cut or disconnect extension wire from the master socket? I have the extension that runs upstairs that I no longer need. I want to get rid of it without calling BT. Will my phone line still work if I cut the extension wire? I have a separate broadband cable extension that connected to the master with just blue wire. The extension cable is connected like you showed in the video with blue and orange. Many thanks.
Spot on ,,,cheers
many thanks, saved my bacon after engineer left us with only hard wired phone upstairs working and nothing on other 3 (not his fault really, should have checked:)
No you shouldn't have had to have checked ! BT are supposed to be the bee's knees and this obviously wasn't the case in this instance ! You should claim some sort of compensation , say a months free line rental or more. Who fixed the fault ? Was it the same engineer ? And how long did they take to correct the error that they had made ? Inconveniencing you and your family who could not contact you ! Especially after your wifes receent visit to the hospital ! Now that I think about that particular event , it wouldnt be inappropriate to expect 12 months free service !
Hoping you take this further,
Yours,
Phil Barlow.
Phil Barlow Depends if it was a BT engineer. If not, then not their fault :)
What is the maximum length of extension cable you can use? Is there a certain type of extension cable to be used if extending to outside building? Thanks
50M
You need exterior rated cable for exterior use
I have an old master socket from 1996 with six connections and not split like the one in the video. Please tell me the numbers and wire colours for connecting an extension. The master socket is currently wired with orange to number 5 and white to number 2
I just bought a new phone for my house. It's one of those old fashioned looking phones with a round dialler but instead of holes there are push button numbers.
When I got it home I discovered that the wall plug is too small for the BT wall socket (it's the same plug that fits into the phone). On examination I see that the 'new phone' with the small plugs on each end only appears to have two live metal terminals on each plug end. Unlike the existing phone lead which has a small plug on the phone end and the larger one on the wall plug end, both have four live metal connections on each end. Any ideas what I need to do?
Will the length of the extension affect the speed of the slave socket for instance the speed of a router? if so is it possible and easy to move the master upstairs (router in office) and place a slave downstairs (just a telephone)?
what is the wire called if somebody was to buy it themselves?
In my property there are 4 master sockets (with lower plates) but I can only use one of them (phone and broadband). The other 3 are not working. How do i know which one is connected to the master socket as an extension socket?
I have dark blue orange and green what numbers do these go in to?
What is the thicker Black cable called and where to but it?????
Can a 4 pair cable like that be converted into an ethernet cable?
Hi, i wired them as you have told in the video, according to the numbers in the extension box.i am not able to hear any sound after connecting my phone.the same phone works in the main bt line.do you think there is fault in the extension socket.
The same extension socket was working 1month back.all of a sudden has become dead.what do you think i must do ?.please help.
What cable should you use for outside of property?
external drop wire cable
How do you wire the master socket?
i dnt know how to hotwire a rj11 phone cable into a master socket 5c because modem will not work will only work when connected to phone socket alone include filter will not work in filter
Hello i have a problem. TalkTalk did not connect my extension wires to the master socket. It looks like they have been joined together to the main phone wires. The master socket does not work when i connect a phone. Have they done it wrong? Thank You
this can be used to mI've your router upstairs right
Hi mate what is that tool called
Suraj
Hi wonder if you could tell me the best way ?? My phone box is in my hall and i have a 10 mtr rj11 cable connected to it going to my router then to my pc in my bedroom. Would it be better to have the router next to my phone box in my hall and connect with a cat6 10 mtr cable to my bedroom , I have been told its always better to have the router as near to the phone box as possible, is this true...thanks..
Ron Jones Sorry, don't work for these guys, but yes, that 10m RJ11 cable is probably seriously restricting your speed and line stability. The 10M cat 6 would be ideal to replace it. The RJ11 cable isn't twisted pair and will pick up inteference :)
Ron Jones Sorry, one more thing, make sure you replace that RJ11 cable with a shorter one, just moving the router closer but keeping the long cable will be worse! :)
Thank you!!!
Thanks for your vid. Thumbs-up. Can I ask a question please?
BT changed my master socket last month when I changed to fibre broadband, speeds are fine at ~38Mbps. But, when I removed the microfilters around the house, the extensions wouldn't ring any more although they work fine otherwise. I checked in the master socket and the BT installer only connected 2 wires to the extensions, so I presume the ring wire is disconnected. Is it safe for me to try just connecting the ring wire in the master socket, and any ideas why the BT installer left it disconnected?
I could just leave the microfilters in place, as these also seem to contain the ring capacitor, but I wanted a tidy-up!
+ridefast0 You can call BT and ask them, Fibre is very sensitive, so even if you're working with a BT socket, you better have someone from BT.
Thanks JoeyGames. Wow, your reply came through to my notifications today, a mere 8 months after you posted it! Maybe there are routers full of delayed messages, well done again Google!!
ridefast0 Haha, that's kind of funny, I still remember typing it wow.
I have a green, white, black and orange wire. Help?
Hi, I want an extension socket like this in a different room than the master socket, for my broadband only to be hooked up to. Will the broadband (Fibre optic) speed be effected by being connected to the extension socket which then relays back to the main? Like slightly higher latency, ping, speed ect?
Yes. Use as little extension cable as you can.
I was wondering if someone could help. I would like to add an extra socket to my living room and intend to run a cable from box in my computer room. However, I have a few questions:
1. What cable do I use and where can I buy it?
2. Where can I buy a new phone box? (not sure if that is what they are called)
3. Where can I buy a new micro filter as I would like to run an ethernet cable into it?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Robert McNair You can buy it all as kit's from Argos, Screwfix, Maplin etc.
wrong orange pair not needed blue pair into 2&5 sorted
Not working for me. On the master socket I have orange in 2 blue in 3 and white blue in 5. The extension is set up the same way. The phone line just crackles and won't ring out or take calls. The broadband doesn't work either. I've tried two different extension sockets and no joy. Plugged directly into the master and things are fine. Any ideas?
Is this just for telephones or can I plug my sky box in say to get box office
Yes as long as you have a filter plugged in
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i have a phone with RJ45 jack.. is it possible to be changed to a bt jack? Or if not is there any adaptor in the market? I can only find BT to rj45 but not the opposite (which is the one i want).Please help me if you can. Thank you
Excellent !
Hi there.
I have done this but my internet is now not working. So I have taken back off is there a way that doesn't interfere with the internet.
Please help.
You need to have a microfilter in the extension and also the master socket (im am Openreach engineer)
is that tool necessary?
My friend just moved in the box he is told is live but BT want £90 to send an engineer to look at it and change an £8 box.
Looking at your video has no master box only one that looks identical to your slave box and I have checked everywhere there is no master?
He wired it up -
1 Green White
2 White Orange
3 Blue White
4 White Blue
5 Orange White
6 White Green
When he picks it up he can't here anything but when I call it rings and at his end it rings too, but when he answers he hears nothing and I still hear his phone tone ringing until I hang up
what type of cable is it?
great help
how come your phones ring twice every time don't you think once would be enough
Only took 1 year for a reply. Not bad. Typical BT
i have a question, if some of the wires in the master socket are disconnected, will i get electricuted if i touch the wires?
No don't worry lol
My landline works when I dial out but when I have a call in it only rings ones and stops any ideas what I can do?
Where do you get that punch down tool from, if you are not a BT engineer?
great video thanks, i want to plug my fibre router into an extsion socket downstairs in my house for better wifi range, do i have to buy a different socket? your help would be appreciated i will subscribe and share your video if you help. Thanks
@John Matrix bought another router than can act as an ap. Hope this helps I bought a billion 7800dxl a number of years ago
Cant hear you even on max volume.
A zip tie now that is really cheap
Old screw terminal, no thank you!
your video quality needs improvement bud. get a mic
Flip sake behave yourself, it's a great video and the sound is clear, only a jackass wants more
was a great video clear as a bell
Poorly produced. I can't see some of the actions. Sound quality poor. Poor advice on cutting back the sheathing - why not use the string to cut back the sheath instead of using a sharp blade and risk cutting the wires or a finger. How about some explanation of what the wires are before you start? You know your stuff but cannot TEACH. See what you have done, criticise the recording and do another one. Ask friends to tell you what is poor about it and then do another again.
get real it was as clear as a bell
Can you add more than 1 additional socket? Is it just a case of punching the wires down on top of each other?