edz
Established Member
Hi All
I recently moved and have Virgin Fibre access, all working ok. As part of the various jobs I'm doing I want to remove a god-awful looking cable that's tacked to the sophets and drops haphazardly to the kitchen wall and through. In there is an old cable and wireless branded socket which I think is a master socket to whatever service it was connected to (its presently behind a fridge so I haven't had the fascia panel off yet but I'm guessing from the split appearance its going to have a ring capacitor in it), I'm guessing, based on a former life as a BT tech, this comes from a split pipe that emerges around the front and has one co-ax cable (which gets connected into the cable that enters to the virgin cable connector in the front room) and one cat3 looking cable that has a join that vanishes up around next doors access. We don't use BT or Virgin for phone line as we have multiple mobile providers and use business Skype for work.
So can this just be removed and terminated?
I know the deal with BT master sockets, this isn't that as its separate and not in use but not troublesome, but does this cable have to do with the old pre-voip virgin POTS lines and is it still needed/a problem if I remove the socket and isolate / terminate the cable back into the eaves?
I don't want to interfere with any back end signals that may then impact my cable connection but the dropped cable at the back of the house is a real mess.
Thanks
Edz
I recently moved and have Virgin Fibre access, all working ok. As part of the various jobs I'm doing I want to remove a god-awful looking cable that's tacked to the sophets and drops haphazardly to the kitchen wall and through. In there is an old cable and wireless branded socket which I think is a master socket to whatever service it was connected to (its presently behind a fridge so I haven't had the fascia panel off yet but I'm guessing from the split appearance its going to have a ring capacitor in it), I'm guessing, based on a former life as a BT tech, this comes from a split pipe that emerges around the front and has one co-ax cable (which gets connected into the cable that enters to the virgin cable connector in the front room) and one cat3 looking cable that has a join that vanishes up around next doors access. We don't use BT or Virgin for phone line as we have multiple mobile providers and use business Skype for work.
So can this just be removed and terminated?
I know the deal with BT master sockets, this isn't that as its separate and not in use but not troublesome, but does this cable have to do with the old pre-voip virgin POTS lines and is it still needed/a problem if I remove the socket and isolate / terminate the cable back into the eaves?
I don't want to interfere with any back end signals that may then impact my cable connection but the dropped cable at the back of the house is a real mess.
Thanks
Edz