Can I Move My BT Master Socket? A Telephone Engineer Gives His Advice…
As a telephone engineer, I’m asked regularly “can I move my BT master socket?”. The official, short, simple answer is “no”. Sorry. But.. (Incidentally, if you think you’ve landed on the wrong page,...
View ArticleWhat Does a Telephone Engineer Cost? And Why? A Fair Price?
So,what does a telephone engineer cost? What’s an expected price for home phone and cabling repair? Typically, Openreach (the organisation that covers what BT used to do), will charge upwards of...
View ArticleInstalling a Garden Office Phone Line – Some Tips from a Telephone Engineer
I recently installed a garden office phone line, and thought I’d share some observations and findings. I’m a telephone engineer , and used to getting cables both into and out of unusual places! The...
View ArticleAdding a Telephone Extension Wiring to Your Master Socket – What NOT to Do.
Adding telephone extension wiring from your Master Socket is easy, isn’t it? Well, yes and no. As a telephone engineer with a background in business telephone systems, I’ve always wondered why my...
View ArticleTelephones For The Elderly – A Telephone Engineer Gives Some Practical Advice
I had elderly parents, both with some degree of dementia. They lived over a hundred miles from me. Keeping in touch was important. So, hopefully I can bring a telephone engineer’s perspective on the...
View ArticleHow to Move Your BT Master Socket (Without Actually Moving It) – Advice from...
In an earlier blog (that people seemed to like!), I explained in no uncertain terms that moving your BT Master socket was potentially A Bad Idea. But That’s Not The Full Story… There is a way of...
View ArticlePhone Wiring Repair and Connectors – Some Tips From A Telephone Engineer.
Because telephone wires (the ones that connect your phones to the master socket in your house) are so small, people don’t seem to take phone wiring repair very seriously. The result is that people...
View ArticleMoving Your BT Infinity Master Socket. A Phone Engineer’s Advice
First of all, I’ve got to make it very clear that moving a BT Infinity Master Socket (or any other BT master socket) isn’t really something you should do. (Well, not officially…). It’s the equivalent...
View ArticleTen Ways to Survive Calling an ISP Customer Service Department
As a local independent telephone engineer, based in the Middlesbrough and Stockton on Tees area in the UK, one of my key jobs, on behalf of my customers is dealing with the dreaded ISP Customer Service...
View ArticlePhone Extension Wiring – Which Type of Cable?
I’m often asked about phone extension wiring, usually when folks don’t want move their master socket . Elsewhere I’ve blogged on how to connect phone extension wiring together. But not on the...
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