Just got a mastersplitter install for VDSL, what next

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#1209448 6-Jan-2015 18:46

kiwijunglist: There is only one lot of wires in the room. I left him there to do his thing. I'm sure there were no splitters there before. Now there is 1x splitter box. I was paranoid, so I've triple checked. There is only 1 x splitter, as pictured. The rest is just a spaghetti of wires.

Either

1. He installed an ADSL splitter for my VDSL connection
2. He didn't do anything.

PS: He told me he installed a splitter for me.

Sorry to say but judgeing from the age of the two port connectors (yellowing with age - internal) that that is not a new splitter installation - BTW is there a flat #17 ? it may be for pr17

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Judgeing from the pic of the jack there will be a spliter somewhere else- but not the one you have shown - with the green/white pr off the splitter connected to the green/white of your cat5 that ends on the jack.

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#1209449 6-Jan-2015 18:47

is it strange that my internal connection uses green+white and blue+white pairs within a blue sleeve, and downstairs that is a white sleeve wired up to blue+white and orange+white pairs. (ie green =/= blue)

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#1209450 6-Jan-2015 18:48

Did he put a dedicted RJ45 socket in for your VDSL connection? if so did he mount it onto a deep mounting block ? It is also common to mount a splitter inside them behind the jack

He took off the old single phone line wall plate, and installed a new one with RJ45 and standard phone line (as pictured) There is no additional equipment (or splitters) behind the wall plate.

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#1209451 6-Jan-2015 18:55

kiwijunglist: is it strange that my internal connection uses green+white and blue+white pairs within a blue sleeve, and downstairs that is a white sleeve wired up to blue+white and orange+white pairs. (ie green =/= blue)

Yep. Follow where that green/white pair goes back to - you may find the correct splitter ;-)

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#1209457 6-Jan-2015 19:15

There is only 1x splitter that i can find at the moment.

So the blue+white and green+white pairs go into a blue sleeve in my house

And then they come out somewhere in this pile of spaghetti (There is nothing between these two areas AFAIK, I'm gonna go long a 5th time)

If the number is correct then my unit is on the top left (#1), this corresponds to a blue sleeved cable and is connected to the blue+white pair, the other 3x pairs in this sleeve are disconnected. here it is here.

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#1209461 6-Jan-2015 19:30

call your isp and get them to get chorus back and this time watch/get them to show you what they are doing so you know, also while you are at it take the time and label your phone connections in that box

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#1209462 6-Jan-2015 19:31

The wire has no slack at all, so maybe too difficult to install a VDSL splitter, and the blue+white wire is the only wire connected. After the tight spaghetti mess the wires go up the wall into the ceiling area. Maybe the splitter is up there, and he spliced into the blue cable up on the ceiling and installed it there? I don't know... would someone do that?

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#1209469 6-Jan-2015 19:52

Just bear in mind that if you are mistaken and get chorus to come back out unnecessarily, there may be a charge from chorus for a 'no fault found'

Sounds like you are in an apartment block right? Sometimes installing a full splitter is not possible and they just check the wiring and put a better master jack point in (which is what appeared to happen)

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#1209471 6-Jan-2015 19:57

I think he did more than a master jack point because at the master jack point the phone line and vdsl line are separate wires and don't join together.

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#1210045 7-Jan-2015 17:33

It would appear you do not Actually have a filter/spliter installed at all

1: the first give away, It's not connected to the right cable (your's is Blue)
2: it looks like it's been there since Adam was a boy
3: MM-3200B is ADSL2+ it should be MM3400 for VDSL2

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