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When I moved into my house it already had a telewest connection. Im still using virgin media cable broadband but using BT for my phone calls.
In the room where the cable comes into the house is a box from which the coax cable to my modem is connected and next to that a phone socket. These are wired to a brown plastic box on the external wall of the house.
What I want to do is run a cat5e cable from this room round the outside of my house to the living room which is on the opposite side of the house. What I hope to do is reuse the phone socket as a network point.
So my question is this, is it possible to safely remove the wiring to the phone socket so that I can run my cat5e cable there instead with a different face plate? Im not how the existing phone wiring is connected to the external box, I thought I might just cut it right back and then tape it up with some self amalgamating tape?
If the phone socket you are referring to is the master phone socket for Virgin, you shouldn't really be doing anything with it as it's the termination point for their phone service. If however you really won't be using the Virgin phone service ever again then you might accept it's redundancy. The brown external box is effectively a junction box allowing virgin to route their cables separately to the points of customer connection for cable, TV and phone.
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