BT Master Socket

[Dozno9]

I am with Sky for my broadband, phone and TV.

I want to move my Master Socket from the bowels of my house to an external wall as I can now get Fibre Optic and the phone wiring is really old and in a mess so I want to start afresh.

The cable from the pole outside goes into a little GPO box thing inside my house then out of that is a cable that goes to the master socket.

Sky have said to get a local guy to do it...

I don't know if BT Openreach will do as I'm Joe Public and even if they do I don't know how much it's gonna set me back.

Can any help? Anyone...


Update - Sky just phoned and said they made a mistake and only BT Openreach can do it but they don't know how much it will be.

[Samdy Gray]

If you order fibre broadband from any provider they'll send out an Openreach engineer to install it. When he's there, ask him to move the master socket; it's included as part of the job if necessary. Mine was and they moved it without any quibbles.

[Dozno9]

So Sky pay them for the install then and that covers a Master Socket move also?

[ScillyRed]

Hmmmmmmmmm Fibre Optic 

Just changed to BT - they promised download of 3Mbps - get 1.92 on a good day 

[Samdy Gray]

So Sky pay them for the install then and that covers a Master Socket move also?

Yes.

[Dozno9]

Great, thanks.

Sky have given me 2 options; Fibre to the green box or fibre to my house.

I've gone for the cheaper one as compared to the speed I get now (I blame the location of the Master Socket) it's going be good.

At the moment I have 6 devices on wireless and it's not great.

[Samdy Gray]

Wifi speeds are limited by the the protocol (e.g. b/g/n) and interference. From my n capable devices I can get about 30Mbps as opposed to the full fibre speed of 80Mbps.