UK Telephones

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:11:50 +0100, in uk.d-i-y "Jerry." strung together this:

Propoganda? A secured wireless network is safer than a unsecured wired one, internet connected on both counts that is.

"GB" wrote | > Err, what if (as mentioned in the OP's message) the OP wants the | > second phone socket, perhaps for a fax or computer etc. ? A | > cordless phone simply does not do the job ! Doh... | Fair enough. Are there what I might describe as Dect sockets | on the market - receiving station is just a socket into which | you plug said PC or fax.

There used to be, I think.

Maplin do now have a mains phone extender (master unit connects to phone line and mains, extension unit plugs into mains and has a socket for a phone). I don't think it would really be suitable for internet, but okay for a sky box that needs to phone home occasionally.

Owain

One For All, it uses the house mains wiring.

In article , Simon writes

DTEC Cordless phones 5+ phones per line and no wires

Yes. BT may not like you tho.

I can't see the difference between two master sockets with a bit of wire between them and two sockets, one master one slave with a bit of wire between them, tho..

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I'll say again, how do cordless phone help with wanting a second socket ?....

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Not to mention those of us who use PABX's on 2 wire systems that need a master per extension..

My BT masters just go straight into the PABX, I relocared the incoming BT line from the old house via a temporary connection in the portakabin to the new house, patched in some cat 5 and lengthened it to come down to where all the comms gear is. Despite the ISDN stuff being switched off for 18 months, no one at BT ever asked me why a home highway line was being used with a single POTS. Or noticed when it all reverted to ISDN 18 months later.

Otr have noticed indeed that the house it used to go to has been repalced with a different one.

I always make a pont of chatting to the BT contractors who come out to fiddle in the ducts that lie along the road, offering free coffee and biscuits. Sometimes they accept. One bloke who finished his schedule early een spent the afternoon stacking bricks for free - either in order to case the property for later, or possibly because he was bored and fancied a chat.

IME BT don't give a stuff unless it goes wrong and you call them in. THEN you may have to pay through the nose if they can claim you messed it all up.

You can clip out the varistor if you are worried.

Mmm., You can't say that. It depneds on th eraltive probability of being able to tap into eiher.

Two ring capacitors (in series with in-service resistors) across the line, instead of one. May make a difference...

Hi,

Sounds like the master could be moved to where you were thinking of putting another master, then an extension socket put in where the master was. Then another extension could be run from the new location of the master if need be.

On most master sockets the faceplate can be unscrewed and unplugged, and there are extra IDC connections for connecting an extension. This saves using a doubler and looks neater.

cheers, Pete.

What varistor? The componets of a master socket are: a PCB, a socket, a resistor, a capacitor and a gas filled surge arrestor.

It can indeed, "ring trip" is the worst case I guess. The capacitors draw enough current to make the exchange think the line has been answered and imediately hung up. All the caller gets is and charged, the callee just a short burst of ringing then nothing, picking up just gets dialtone.

You can't - but the automatic line test system can and will through up a wobbly every time it is run overnight.

Latest NTE-5 I think it's called is a bit more complex to simplify line test. Not sure if it has a varister though.

Maybe you are getting confused with the replacement face plate for the NTE-5 that has an ADSL filter:

I meant in terms of difficulty and ugliness of installation...

Ah. The gas filled surge arrestor then :)

Er, I meant that it is just as much hassle to do the job properly as bodge in a second master with all the defects you and others have piinted out.