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BT66 Junction box
09-02-2014 7:37 PM
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Hi all!
After driving around my 'currently' building housing estate, I found that the houses just built a few months ago have a BT66 junction box outside beside the front door.
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Mine is just a plastic cover with the main line entering the house and going to the master socket like here
The reason I would like a junction box as above is so then I can easily put in telephone extensions from the junction box to the kitchen, as my sky box needs a telephone line connected. It would be a pain to drag a cable from upstairs to the kitchen downstairs, whereas where the cable enters is just a few metres away from the kitchen.
Also what are my options? Can easily fit a BT66 or even an external NTE?
After driving around my 'currently' building housing estate, I found that the houses just built a few months ago have a BT66 junction box outside beside the front door.

Mine is just a plastic cover with the main line entering the house and going to the master socket like here
The reason I would like a junction box as above is so then I can easily put in telephone extensions from the junction box to the kitchen, as my sky box needs a telephone line connected. It would be a pain to drag a cable from upstairs to the kitchen downstairs, whereas where the cable enters is just a few metres away from the kitchen.
Also what are my options? Can easily fit a BT66 or even an external NTE?
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09-02-2014 7:58 PM
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Ask your present supplier as it is all down to the company who provide the phone line
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09-02-2014 8:07 PM
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How?
likely BT will do anything
likely BT will do anything
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09-02-2014 8:08 PM
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Posted on their community forums
https://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity-Speed-Connection/BT66-Junction-box/td-p/1166516
https://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity-Speed-Connection/BT66-Junction-box/td-p/1166516
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09-02-2014 8:18 PM
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Sounds almost like you're trying to create some sort of notoriously troublesome "star" wiring arrangement, with each socket independently wired to the incoming line, which is not good for DSL.
I seem to be stuck with an outside BT66 and star wiring. Each time the phone line has died, an openreach engineer re-does all the connections in the BT66 until they manage to get it working again. Apparently replacing this dreadful setup with a modern master socket is just not going to be done for a voice fault. And the most recent time it was fixed, the fix was disconnecting one of the sockets, so then I had to complain about the £129.99 charge for the ridiculously-named "engineer home improvement service", but I suppose that's the fun you get if you don't have a test socket.
I seem to be stuck with an outside BT66 and star wiring. Each time the phone line has died, an openreach engineer re-does all the connections in the BT66 until they manage to get it working again. Apparently replacing this dreadful setup with a modern master socket is just not going to be done for a voice fault. And the most recent time it was fixed, the fix was disconnecting one of the sockets, so then I had to complain about the £129.99 charge for the ridiculously-named "engineer home improvement service", but I suppose that's the fun you get if you don't have a test socket.
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