Hi guys.
Moving home soon and want to know do most small,modern apartments have the master socket in the living room ? Im asking as I have some TV equipment which cannot be wireless it has to be hardwired.
Thanks
By master socket do you mean the phone/DSL socket?
cannot be wireless it has to be hardwired
If weāre talking networking then powerline adapter or wireless bridge will work just fine.
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I think so mate.
I mean the main socket you plug your microfilter and RJ11 router connection into.
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No idea how it is in the UK (havenāt dealt with DSL in ages) but back in France itās very common to have a phone socket in the living room.
In any case, you can put the modem anywhere you have the master socket and then when you get Ethernet out of it you can use a power line adapter or wireless bridge to bring it wherever you want.
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Thanks, do you lose much speed via homeplug ?
Depends which ones, they have different ratings, from AV200 (200Mbps theoretical, a bit under 100Mbps real) to AV1200 (1200Mbps theoretical, pretty close to 1000Mbps real) and how much speed the device actually needs. If itās got a 100Mbps Ethernet socket then there isnāt much point buying a higher speed Homeplug because it wouldnāt be used anyway.
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Ok so say i get a 75mb sync on the router, and i use a homeplug to connect my TV box, will that also receive 75mb or will there be interference causing the speed to drop
It will be able to āreceiveā up to 75Mbps, unless the home plug or the wiring is so bad and that it gets less.
Iāve been viewing a bunch of places recently (not for me, but for my sister), and every place we saw did indeed have those sockets in the living room space.
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The original phone lines installed back in the day by BT were always placed as close to the front door as possible for cheaps. Not many people have changed them. Itās actually not a big job to get an engineer in to move it.
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Used to be my job (before BT). In those days 99% of installations were from a pole, so would enter the house via the nearest (or nearly nearest) window or door frame.
If the subscriber (yep, it was that long ago) wanted the cable to run internally to another part of the house, theyād have to pay extra.
TLDR; youāre right, it was for cheaps, but not BTās cheaps.
Maybe you installed the wire from the pole to our house! It was so ancient when we moved in a few years ago, the Internet cut out whenever it rained. I could see the metal from the pavementā¦
The engineers thought it was āoriginalāā¦ 
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Haha. Yes, if it didnāt work properly, it was probably me 
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For the OP: the Ā£100 I spent on an independent telecoms engineer when we moved in is some of the best money Iāve ever spent, in terms of positive impact on wellbeing, work etc.
If the plug is wrong, Iād just get it changedā¦
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That fair enough but Iām renting and have no right to get things changed
Not sure, but I think the master socket is owned by BT/Openreach anyway, so may be none of the landlordās business.
If you went ahead and got the work done properly to move the switch, it would be a crazy landlord who suggested it amounted to damage!
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We moved into a new build in October last year. It has just finished being built and all the master sockets are in the bedroom! Absolute nightmare!!
Iāve never rented a flat with the master socket in the living room, tenements up here usually have them in halls or near a window if itās overhead wiring.
My estate has them in various places, most have the optic fibre termination point under the stairs but the properties with garages tend to have the optic fibre terminating in the garage with the master socket connected there
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Small modern apartments though. Surely thereās a standard for that 
Slightly confused by this thread. Why not find the flat you want, and then look where the socket is?
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