"Paul" wrote in message
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I'm in the same situation. I had broadband set up and no change was
made to the old GPO box I have. I rang BT and asked if they would
replace it with a plugin style master socket and I think the cost was
some way over £150 ! Bit reluctant to fiddle with the old box as there
are fragile wires all stuffed in and I'm sure I'd never get them back
in the right place (though if anyone can direct me to a wiring diagram
I guess that might help?)

That's more than a little depressing. I sat on three years of committees
planning the ADSL rollout and we all agreed this was the ideal time to
replace random old boxes with proper NTE5s FOC. Seems somebody who doesn't
understand the problem has decided to save 3s&6d (to use and old expression)
by ignoring that. I'll check it out.