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I'd like a new faceplate, is the NTE5c Mk4 to be installed by Openreach only?
Berk:
Hi all,
Following a few days of intermittent time out issues my ISP has suggested fitting a new faceplate. I've had one each of ADSLnation's and Clarity faceplates in the past, but my ADSLnation faceplate currently AWOL, presumed lost so I need something new to test.
I just found the NTE5c plates for sale and wondered if these are supposed to be installed by Openreach engineers only since it involves touching the wires on their side of the socket? or can any qualified telephone engineer do it? or are end users allowed to install them now since they're tool-less?
I assume it will be £100andsomething+VAT for Openreach, so if that is the only 'legal' maybe it would be better to just go for a regular NTE faceplate, in which case is there a best version of these to look for?
Thanks
j0hn:
You couldn't pay me to swap from an NTE5A to an NTE5C.
It (the NTE5C) is very poorly made compared to its predecessor
On the older NTE5A the components are properly soldered into place.
In the NTE5C the components are "clicked" into place.
I recommend using an NTE5A in combination with an OpenReach MK3 SSFP.
chenks:
--- Quote from: j0hn on June 19, 2018, 06:10:26 PM ---I recommend using an NTE5A in combination with an OpenReach MK3 SSFP.
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it's just a shame they end up sticking out the wall so much.
if you're unlucky that master socket is in the middle of wall then it's very bad to look at and is very easy to knock it when walking past it.
very bad design where you end up just putting things on top of existing sockets.
daveesh1:
I have swapped mine only because BT fitted a new line as part of a trial I was doing. It's given me 2.5Mb increase on download but upload stayed the same.
renluop:
--- Quote from: Berk on June 19, 2018, 03:34:01 PM ---Hi all,
Following a few days of intermittent time out issues my ISP has suggested fitting a new faceplate. I've had one each of ADSLnation's and Clarity faceplates in the past, but my ADSLnation faceplate currently AWOL, presumed lost so I need something new to test.
I just found the NTE5c plates for sale and wondered if these are supposed to be installed by Openreach engineers only since it involves touching the wires on their side of the socket? or can any qualified telephone engineer do it? or are end users allowed to install them now since they're tool-less?
I assume it will be £100andsomething+VAT for Openreach, so if that is the only 'legal' maybe it would be better to just go for a regular NTE faceplate, in which case is there a best version of these to look for?
Thanks
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OP's crux query, I'd say, concerns the aspect I have coloured, and whatever SSFP the answer to that would be identical. I leave it to the inteligensia here to respond to that, but legal or not, I paid ~ £40 all in to an ex BT man.
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