In message , at 14:31:17 on Fri, 13 Nov
2020, Mike Clarke remarked:
On 13/11/2020 13:40, Jack Harry Teesdale wrote:
It much depends on where the nearest BT/OR network connection point
is which is not always at the front of a property.
If it's an older property the M/S could be anywhere.

They do sometimes get installed in the most crazy places. My BT master
socket is in the loft!

They were often installed in the hall, near the front door, which was
apparently regarded as the obvious place to put a sole phone instrument
in a house.

When my line from the telegraph pole was replaced three houses ago (it
had been damaged by rubbing on a tree) by agreement with the engineer
they wired it instead around the side of the house and fitted the master
socket in the 3rd bedroom at the back, which I was using as an office,
and was the obvious place for an ADSL router to be situated.

One house ago, the master socket was in the cupboard under the stairs,
next to the electric meter and distribution board. But the house had
been built from new with phone wiring from there to numerous rooms.
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Roland Perry