On 13/11/2020 14:47, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Mike Clarke formulated the question :
They do sometimes get installed in the most crazy places. My BT master
socket is in the loft!

Nothing crazy about it being installed in the loft, that's where mine
is. It comes in overhead, so rather than have it exposed going down the
wall, often pulling adrift due to weather, I installed it in the loft.
Main router next to it, then extension sockets and LAN wired via an
internal route to where needed.

But in this case it had been installed in the eaves where there was
hardly any headroom in an *unboarded* loft where you needed to lie on
the rafters to connect anything to it.

Fortunately the previous owner had installed extension sockets in more
convenient places around the house but the problems arises when you have
broadband problems and your ISP casually tells you to plug the router
directly into the test socket. After grovelling around in the loft and
managing to provide a suitable mains supply you also need to run a very
long temporary network cable through the house to where the desktop
computer is.