Any different between a telephone socket 2c and 2?

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IBeats

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#279934 17-Nov-2020 23:26

Hi there, is there any different between a 2c and 2 telephone socket?

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#2605797 18-Nov-2020 05:50

The original 2 wire sockets (2) still had a capacitor to allow old 3 wire phones to ring. Later 2 wire sockets (2c) don't have the capacitor as it is not often needed.

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#2605799 18-Nov-2020 07:05

Either are fine for broadband - If you still have a retro phone and a landline you need the 2 not the 2c for it to ring (by retro I mean pre 1995)

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#2612451 28-Nov-2020 19:23

Often these days a newer house has the 2 wires going to an RJ45 outlet that works on the more modern phones. When you get fibre the copper landline becomes obsolete and they should rewire it to an outlet next to the fibre or router so you can liven up the landline phones from the router's voip output.

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