The year before last, I ran some Cat5E from the house entry point (i.e. prior to the master socket) and into a new socket. I'm now synced at 2.6mbit/s (and BT can sod off if they think that i've done a bad job).
For future reference, should you wish to do things by the rules, it's not too tricky :
- When the man from BT finally decides to grace you with his presence , smile nicely, offer a cup of tea.... maintain a pleasant demeanour despite the fact you've been waiting in all day and had just about given up hope.
- When showing the location to install, request he install on a "conn box" (a.k.a Krone 254B) instead of the usual NTE5 "master socket" that they would terminate domestic lines on.
- And there you have it.... full official flexibility is now yours to put "master sockets" wherever you want. If you're lucky, the BT engineer may even leave you a few "spare" BT-branded master sockets....
