so this weeks project is to move my poorly located master socket.
yes i know it's not something that openreach would approve of but i've done enough cabling in my time to be competent enough to do it without any issue.
this is what i currently have
a GPO box coming in from the window frame (been there for at least 30 years), many paint jobs on it.
from this box there is some old CW1308 (i presume/hope) cable running approx 207 inches / 18 feet / 5 meters to the other side of the room where an old British Telecom box is screwed to the skirting board (again about 25-30 years old).
the cable coming in from the right is from the GPO box.
there is a single phone connected to this box using the filter you can see.
there is then some more CW1308 cable coming out the master socket which then runs all the way up the wall (this socket is on the ground floor) up into the second floor, then continues up again into the loft. that cable then runs along the loft, back down into a bedroom and then along again into another room where it terminates at socket where the modem is plugged in (again using a filter).
this is clearly not ideal, so the plan is the cut all cable out of the equation and fit this below the GPO box with some new CW1308 i have sitting here.
i'll try and use a counter sunk back box otherwise it'll stick 6cm out from wall (not ideal), it'll be 3.5cm if the back box is counter sunk.
i'll then move the modem to where the new master socket is, and run ethernet from there up to where the rest of the comms equipment sits (which is upstairs).
i suspect the hardest bit is going to be opening the old GPO box to connect the new CW1308, due to all the paint.