Change bt master phone socket for metal face plate

[Kellogs64]

Hi all,
Trying to change a facetted. Not sure how to do it. Got a bit master phone line with this layout

A White
B Orange
2 White
3 Green
4 Black
5 Orange
I want to change it for a new metal face plate, which has

1 2 3 4 5 6

What do the cables do.

Thanks for your help

Cheers Tony

 

[buzzlightyear]

That master box does not belong to you,
You are renting it form BT playing with their gear is no no.

 

[rsgaz]

And, if the new one doesn't have A and B, then it is probably not a master, you have bought a slave instead.

 

[rsgaz]

OP, just an extra thought, if you have an external master socket, which looks like this...

Then you can do whatever you want with the sockets inside your home.

 

[Kellogs64]

OP, just an extra thought, if you have an external master socket, which looks like this...

Then you can do whatever you want with the sockets inside your home.

Hi Guys..
Sorry for late reply been busy. Yes I have a master socket like in the picture in the garage. How do I connect the new face plate.

Thanks in advance

 

[rsgaz]

I have a master socket like in the picture in the garage

OK, just open the front cover of that. You will be able to see which colour wires are in 2 and 5 in there.
(If 3 is also connected, make a note of it also.)

At the indoor socket, take the wires out of A and B and use the colour code found in the garage to connect to 2 and 5 (and possibly 3)on you new socket. Then whatever wires were on you old socket in 2, 3 and 5, just punch those wires into the same slots on the new socket. You will have two wires in the same IDC slot, this is normal.

You'll need a krone tool by the way.

 

[rsgaz]

Oh, and as you have an external master, the socket you are fitting should be a slave, not another master. A picture of the back of the new one would help.

 

[Zerax]

You'll need a krone tool by the way.

Unless your new slave socket has screw terminals...

 

[snowhead]

Wasn't aware of these, but it appears they're discontinued now.

 

[rsgaz]

Wasn't aware of these,

Yeah, they were invented for new housing estates, to save BT/OpenReach having to enter all the properties, faffing with huge bundles of keys and wasting time.

but it appears they're discontinued now.

Then along came FTTC, which they're not compatible with, so if you order BT fibre, they have to remove it and swap it for a standard external BT junction box, like a BT66b.