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02-11-2024 05:58 PM
Hello everyone, I live in a basement flat in Bristol BS8, where the mobile phone reception is very poor, I can't use mobile broadband, I can't find any broadband socket or open reach in my flat, only one socket like this, I don't know exactly what this is for and whether broadband can be installed. the landlord told me. all of the cables are linked from the top of her apartment. And the building is old.
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02-11-2024 06:43 PM
@Aiden10 The socket, connection middle next to TV Ariel connection looks like a standard BT phone connection, one to the left not enough detail to be seen, if you look in yourself, count how many pins you can see. If you where to have a phone etc, the landlord should surely be able to tell you what is available.
If it is live phone wise or can be connected by your ISP, then phone would need an ADSL filter applied to that socket. If you have a separate address for mail, then check out the BTW address checker below. USE the address box, fill in at least postcode and go from there.
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02-11-2024 06:07 PM
@Aiden10 they look like ethernet connections.
You should ask the landlord what the other end is connected to.
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02-11-2024 06:09 PM
If this interface can be used, it has the same function as the open reach socket
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02-11-2024 06:38 PM
That looks like one of the original ADSL line splitters, one side was for the phoneline and the other for broadband.
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02-11-2024 06:42 PM
Is it similar to this router that can be plugged into the mail?
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02-11-2024 06:43 PM
@Aiden10 The socket, connection middle next to TV Ariel connection looks like a standard BT phone connection, one to the left not enough detail to be seen, if you look in yourself, count how many pins you can see. If you where to have a phone etc, the landlord should surely be able to tell you what is available.
If it is live phone wise or can be connected by your ISP, then phone would need an ADSL filter applied to that socket. If you have a separate address for mail, then check out the BTW address checker below. USE the address box, fill in at least postcode and go from there.
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02-11-2024 06:54 PM
Can a corded phone handset be plugged into the socket next to the TV & do you get a dialling tone?
To phone EE CS: Dial Freephone +44 800 079 8586 - Option 1 for Mobile Phone & Mobile Broadband or Option 2 for Home Broadband & Home Phone
ISPs: 1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up > 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB > 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB > 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU > 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU > 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC > 2014: EE 20 Meg WBC > 2020: EE 40 Meg FTTC > 2022:EE 80 Meg FTTC SoGEA > 2025 EE 150 Meg FTTP
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02-11-2024 06:58 PM
But I don‘t have cored phone
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02-11-2024 07:00 PM
Thanks for your help I found something like this, but I don't know what it means. Does that mean I can install broadband directly?
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02-11-2024 07:05 PM
Is there nowt above the WBC FTTP lines?
To phone EE CS: Dial Freephone +44 800 079 8586 - Option 1 for Mobile Phone & Mobile Broadband or Option 2 for Home Broadband & Home Phone
ISPs: 1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up > 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB > 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB > 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU > 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU > 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC > 2014: EE 20 Meg WBC > 2020: EE 40 Meg FTTC > 2022:EE 80 Meg FTTC SoGEA > 2025 EE 150 Meg FTTP

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