Telephone line connection assistance

[avney88]

Hi,
The telephone line in my house is currently wired with the external line coming into a master socket and the slave devices being fed off that socket in parallel to a further 4 slave sockets via 4 individual cables.
My question is, what is the simplest way to get the current phone line connected to the comfort system with minimal disruption to the current layout.
Thank you in advance for any replies.Avney

[siamak]

Hi Anvey88
I guess it would be nice to extend the external line from master box (Before connecting to slave cables) directly to Comfort TEL-IN and from TEL-OUT back to the master socket to feed the slaves according to Hookup Diagram. the slave cables should only be connected to the cable which comes from TEL-OUT.
It would be 2 telephone cables between Comfort panel and master socket.
Also see Quick Installation Guide page 5. It would be different if you have an ADSL modem connected to phone line.

[avney88]

Hi Siamak, 
Thank you for your reply.I forgot to mention that the master socket currently does have an ADSL connection on it going out to a modem.You mention that the connection would be different in this case. Please could you explain this to me?
Thank you in advanceAvney

[Home]

OK BT master socket
It is best to use the master socket that plugs into the front of the BT master socket face plate. NTE5 its called
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ADSL-Faceplate-F...39-1927165


IN this way there is ONLY one ADSL filter.
Out of the BACK of the filter take a tel line into Comfort 2(blue) 5(w+blue)
Out of Comfort take the  2(blue) 5(w+blue) to ANOTHER master socket (just an ordinary master it can sit next to the main BT one - label it Comfort master.
From the Comfort master take all of the house extensions  2(blue) 5(w+blue) 3 (orange)
The orange is the ringer....
In this way IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH YOUR BROADBAND then ITS NOT Comfort - and when you ring the tech help centre tel and broadband are separate entities.
ALSO if the tel line goes down its easy to establish if its on your side or BT side - i.e if there is no tel dial tone at the BT master socket IT IS CATEGORICALLY BT\'s problem. If there is a dial tone at BT master it is your problem.

Hope that this clears up question.

[avney88]

Thank you for your reply Home.
What you are saying makes sense. However, I am going to opt for a simpler solution initially for 2 reasons, and if that doesn\'t work I will go for what you suggested.
The first being that all the sockets that I have are low profile brushed chrome, and I would like to try and keep that look, and the second is to avoid the need to cut out a second socket into the wall.
I currently have a double socket space where all the cabling is presented to. From this space I can get to the back of the Comfort, so I intend to take a cable from an ADSL fliter that is connected to the master socket through this double socket space and into the back of the comfort. This will goto the TEL-IN connector.
I will then run another cable from the TEL-OUT through the back of the comfort and into the back of the master socket and connect all of the slave lines to it. 
I am hoping that this will be a simpler solution that will allow me to change the ADSL filter easily should the need arise. I realise that this will mean having the Tel cable exposed slightly, but I have a bundle of cables there currently which I will box in eventually.
Thanks again for your assistance.Avney

[ident]

By the way, if the ADSL Modem needs to be plugged into a telephone socket in the house instead of the Master socket, the ADSL Protecion/Passthrough Board is available.

This has 2 termiinal blocks which can be plugged into both TEL IN and TEL OUT

It acts as a microfilter, ie it prevents voice signals from getting into the ADSL and prevents the ADSL signal from getting into the voice signal. It also provides extra protection against surge on the telephone line



https://www.cytech.biz/adsl_protectionpa...gory_id=86

[GB2015]

Hi,

I had a Comfort Panel installed about 11 years ago, before ADSL was widely used in the UK. My existing wiring is:

1) BT line in from the street straight to the Line in on the comfort panel.

2) Line out from the comfort panel to one master BT socket and then daisy chained from that master to two secondary BT sockets.

What I would now like to do is use an ADSL modem, rather than a cable modem for broadband.

Where shall I put the microfilter? Changing the master and secondary sockets is not possible as they are all brushed chrome and flush mounted in the walls. I can access the phone wiring coming into the Comfort Panel and out of the panel, although it is in trunking so there is not a huge amount of space for adding a microfilter (not sure how big they are?). Would I be better off just buying that extra circuit board shown in the photo and mounting it inside the Comfort box somehow?

Many thanks!

[slychiu]

The microfilter should be inserted before Comfort and the phones should be connected to Comfort TEL OUT

The is a connection diagram for ADSL in the Engineer Menual