BE Broadband: Matt's House "Mastering Master Socket"

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BE Broadband presents "Mastering Master Socket", the third in the Matt's House series, a string of guides covering 3 key areas of your broadband that can be tweaked without technical expertise to improve the speed of any broadband connection: router setup, internal home wiring and use of the master socket.

It's the wire used to provide ringing on phones connected to the extension sockets, modern phones don't tend to use it, also ADSL filters have capacitors so are able to supply ringing current rending the wire un-needed. Ring wire can act like an antenna and pick up unwanted interference which can weaken your connection.

You'll find ring wire in the phone socket, connected to pin 3, usually orange but that assumes that whoever wired it up followed the colour code properly. Disconnect it in all sockets, In fact disconnect any wires that are NOT connected to pin 2 and 5.

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[treguard1982]

@treguard1982 Just to also say that the production values on this are pretty damn good. Can definitely see Be as a company that will continue to grow. Just hope they don't forget their core values and go the way of other ISPs

[treguard1982]

Have been with Be for about 5 years now. Very good service. The fact that I have only phoned them twice in that time should be a good sign!

[baldysoftknuckles]

@djwilduk fuck bt , its your master socket

[djwilduk]

Nice video but what do BT say about playing around with the Master socket?! Do I cut the blue wire, or the orange...? ;)

[Darryld1]

2 AND 5

FACEPLATE IN THE MORNING

[AARST]

I really laughed out loud at the end. Very funny.

[dansus99]

Amateur hour..?

Nice concept badly done.

[jessb2611]

nice slippers matt :)

are u going to wear them next time u come and see nan?