Moving a BT broadband socket

[David001]

Hello.  Do I have to ask for a BT engineer to move a BT broadband socket, or an electrician do ti?

 

Our broadband/phone cable comes from a pole on the nearby lane to just below the roof above the 1st floor.   Then it travels west about 20 metres along the front of the house before passing through the wall of the room at the extreme west end of the house.  As the house is long and narrow, this arrangement isn't helpful.  It was probably made like this because the previous owner had an office in that room at the extreme west end, and can't have had a wish for wifi reception at the extreme east end of the house. Wifi throughout the house would surely be much better if the cable entered the house halfway along the frontage.

 

I imagine that "all" that needs to be done is:

- drill a hole through the 10" wall of the house (wood-board, Kingspan insulation board, plywood board, internal plaster)

- shorten the cable then draw it through the hole

- reposition the BT socket on the wall, and attach the cable to it.

- seal round the cable on the exterior side of the wall.

 

Is this something a local electrician could easily do? 

 

To make wifi reception throughout the house as good as possible, should the new socket be positioned upstairs or downstairs?

If the socket were to be upstairs, it would be in the large living-room in the middle of the house and the router attached to it could feed the TV directly via an ethernet cable.

If the socket is positioned downstairs, it would be in a small room but still be in the middle of the house.

 

Thank you for advice.

 

 

[SteamyTea]

2 minutes ago, David001 said:

 

To make wifi reception throughout the house as good as possible, should the new socket be positioned upstairs or downstairs

Upstairs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014pgk

 

As for the rest, just do it. Been a long times since the GPO can lock someone up.

[ProDave]

Are we talking copper wire as in ADSL?  Or Fibre?

 

A picture of what's behind the socket might help.

[Gone West]

2 hours ago, David001 said:

Do I have to ask for a BT engineer to move a BT broadband socket

I've moved BT copper cable many times over the years in various houses. I've just removed the copper cable from inside my current house and disconnected it from the outside of the house and had Openreach remove it to the pole. I got fed up with slow broadband. I wouldn't know what to do if it was fibre.

[David001]

1 hour ago, ProDave said:

Are we talking copper wire as in ADSL?  Or Fibre?

@ProDave, our package is called "Part Fibre", which means there's fibre to the village cabinet, and copper up into the surrounding valleys (Welsh valleys).

Thanks to @SteamyTea I've now seen on YouTube that moving the socket is simple, and that drilling through the wall would be the most testing part.

 

[ProDave]

Just take photos of how the cable was connected to the socket BEFORE you disconnect it, then you can be sure you can re connect it the same.

[SteamyTea]

And remember that it has about 50V flowing though it, so can tingle.