Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share the broadband costs but not to have a phone connected so that there would be no telephone call charges. This arrangement has been abused so he wants to find a way of making sure no one can plug a phone into the master socket. The master socket has separate phone and BB outlets

Would filling the phone outlet with Araldite work? Or does it conduct electricity so it might short circuit the line voltage??

If filling it works then we plan to fit replace the screw on the face plate with high security ones.

Or is there a better way?

On 08/06/16 17:25, Yvonne wrote:
Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share the broadband

Who ever is abusing the phone line, will also abuse the broadband with
who knows what.

Have your son pull out of the share and get a 3G stick for himself.

Tsk, students ...

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On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 17:35:04 UTC+1, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 08/06/16 17:25, Yvonne wrote:
Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share the broadband

Who ever is abusing the phone line, will also abuse the broadband with
who knows what.

Have your son pull out of the share and get a 3G stick for himself.

Tsk, students ...

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The BB is an unlimited package so there's not a problem with that.

On 08/06/2016 17:25, Yvonne wrote:
Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share the broadband costs but not to have a phone connected so that there would be no telephone call charges. This arrangement has been abused so he wants to find a way of making sure no one can plug a phone into the master socket. The master socket has separate phone and BB outlets

Would filling the phone outlet with Araldite work? Or does it conduct electricity so it might short circuit the line voltage??

If filling it works then we plan to fit replace the screw on the face plate with high security ones.

Or is there a better way?

Maybe a steel plate with a single hole for the broadband to fix atop the
face plate with security screws. Fill the security screw recesses with
Araldite when it's fixed.

Cheers
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On 08/06/2016 17:25, Yvonne wrote:
Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share the broadband costs but not to have a phone connected so that there would be no telephone call charges. This arrangement has been abused so he wants to find a way of making sure no one can plug a phone into the master socket. The master socket has separate phone and BB outlets

Would filling the phone outlet with Araldite work? Or does it conduct electricity so it might short circuit the line voltage??

If filling it works then we plan to fit replace the screw on the face plate with high security ones.

Or is there a better way?

Maybe a steel plate with a single hole for the broadband to fix atop the
face plate with security screws. Fill the security screw recesses with
Araldite when it's fixed.

Cheers
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We did this to death recently on a different newsgroup.
Have a read through this:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/uk.t...d/5PjPvw8PtUM/
aA95foKHAQAJ

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On 08/06/2016 17:44, Syd Rumpo wrote:
On 08/06/2016 17:25, Yvonne wrote:
Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share
the broadband costs but not to have a phone connected so that there
would be no telephone call charges. This arrangement has been abused
so he wants to find a way of making sure no one can plug a phone into
the master socket. The master socket has separate phone and BB outlets

Would filling the phone outlet with Araldite work? Or does it conduct
electricity so it might short circuit the line voltage??

If filling it works then we plan to fit replace the screw on the face
plate with high security ones.

Or is there a better way?

Maybe a steel plate with a single hole for the broadband to fix atop the
face plate with security screws. Fill the security screw recesses with
Araldite when it's fixed.

Cheers

You do know that the broadband port is still a phone line and you just
need an RJ to phone socket adapter to plug a phone in?
If they put a filter in the adapter then the broadband would still work
(unless its right at the edge now and the extra filter breaks it) while
they used the phone.

Ask the phone company to make the line incoming calls only.

Yvonne wrote:
Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share the broadband costs but not to have a phone connected so that there would be no telephone call charges. This arrangement has been abused so he wants to find a way of making sure no one can plug a phone into the master socket. The master socket has separate phone and BB outlets

Would filling the phone outlet with Araldite work? Or does it conduct electricity so it might short circuit the line voltage??

If filling it works then we plan to fit replace the screw on the face plate with high security ones.

Or is there a better way?

I find it hard to imagine living like that. And there's nothing you can
do to stop the determined thief. Surely your plan will fail when whoever
it is pops into the pound shop for a set of security bits.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

Yvonne wrote:

Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share
the broadband costs but not to have a phone connected so that there
would be no telephone call charges. This arrangement has been abused

If the flatmates can't be trusted to not plug a phone into a socket,
they can't be trusted not to undo security screws or try to "tap" the
wires elsewhere.

Who is the line rental/calls provider?

In article , Yvonne
wrote:
Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share the
broadband costs but not to have a phone connected so that there would be
no telephone call charges. This arrangement has been abused so he wants
to find a way of making sure no one can plug a phone into the master
socket. The master socket has separate phone and BB outlets

Would filling the phone outlet with Araldite work? Or does it conduct
electricity so it might short circuit the line voltage??

If filling it works then we plan to fit replace the screw on the face
plate with high security ones.

Or is there a better way?

You used to be able to get locking covers for this purpose.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England

On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:25:38 -0700, Yvonne wrote:

Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share the
broadband costs but not to have a phone connected so that there would be
no telephone call charges. This arrangement has been abused so he wants
to find a way of making sure no one can plug a phone into the master
socket. The master socket has separate phone and BB outlets

Would filling the phone outlet with Araldite work? Or does it conduct
electricity so it might short circuit the line voltage??

If filling it works then we plan to fit replace the screw on the face
plate with high security ones.

Or is there a better way?

Ask for the number to be made incoming only. Use VoIP if required.

Job done.



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On 08/06/2016 17:25, Yvonne wrote:
Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share the broadband costs but not to have a phone connected so that there would be no telephone call charges. This arrangement has been abused so he wants to find a way of making sure no one can plug a phone into the master socket. The master socket has separate phone and BB outlets

Would filling the phone outlet with Araldite work? Or does it conduct electricity so it might short circuit the line voltage??

If filling it works then we plan to fit replace the screw on the face plate with high security ones.

Or is there a better way?

Restricting socket access will not work - easy to plug a phone into
the broadband socket where it will work !

The phone socket provides voice phone connection via a filter
The broadband connection is unfiltered and can provide broadband and
phone connection.

Agree with earlier post that getting an incoming only line is best idea.

Yvonne wrote

Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to
share the broadband costs but not to have a phone connected
so that there would be no telephone call charges. This arrangement
has been abused so he wants to find a way of making sure no one
can plug a phone into the master socket. The master socket has
separate phone and BB outlets

Trouble is that whatever you do, at worst the thief
can unplug the BB and plug the phone into that outlet.

Would filling the phone outlet with Araldite work?

It would be better to just rewire the phone
socket so it doesnt work anymore if the
thief isnt likely to be able to rewire it again.

Or does it conduct electricity so it
might short circuit the line voltage??

If filling it works then we plan to fit replace the
screw on the face plate with high security ones.

Trouble is that it is trivially easy to get
a screwdriver that can unscrew those.

Or is there a better way?

Work out who the thief is from the record
of what calls were made and then kick it
out of the flat or make it pay for the calls.

If you modify or damage the master socket you will get the company,
assumedly BT very annoyed indeed. At least that is my experience, as its not
your property to tamper with.

Don't they charge you for line rental anyway?
Brian

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"Yvonne" wrote in message
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Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share the
broadband costs but not to have a phone connected so that there would be no
telephone call charges. This arrangement has been abused so he wants to find
a way of making sure no one can plug a phone into the master socket. The
master socket has separate phone and BB outlets

Would filling the phone outlet with Araldite work? Or does it conduct
electricity so it might short circuit the line voltage??

If filling it works then we plan to fit replace the screw on the face plate
with high security ones.

Or is there a better way?

On 08/06/2016 17:25, Yvonne wrote:
Son shares his flat with four others. The original deal was to share the broadband costs but not to have a phone connected so that there would be no telephone call charges. This arrangement has been abused so he wants to find a way of making sure no one can plug a phone into the master socket. The master socket has separate phone and BB outlets

Would filling the phone outlet with Araldite work? Or does it conduct electricity so it might short circuit the line voltage??

If filling it works then we plan to fit replace the screw on the face plate with high security ones.

Or is there a better way?

Change to Broadband only contract.

Mike