Talk:British telephone sockets

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I am sure that the colours are in the ratio 3 to 1.

[edit] Title

The title most definitely should not have caps on "telephone sockets". See Manual of style. If you can persuade another admin that the title should have capitals, then they will move the article for you. (And don't cite ADSL as a counter example - I feel strongly that should be asymmetric digital subscriber line!) -- RHaworth 16:20, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Well why dont you change the ADSL page to that convention? Deben Dave 20:11, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Broadband

To improve ADSL performance and reliability it is often recommended that the ringer wire is disconnected in any unfiltered parts of the system. More information on this would be usefule as I have never heard about this Deben Dave 08:37, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Well there is no need for it in the unfiltered part of the system and having an extra wire hanging off your line through a capacitor (which essentially looks like a short at high frequencies) is not going to be positive for the lines high frequency behavior. I've seen it reccomended as the first thing to try for ADSL problems from quite a few people who do phone installation work professionally but unfortunately I can't find a good cite. Plugwash 08:44, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Did it not go a bit like this?

"...introduced a plug and socket system to allow subscribers to connect telephones on the 19th November 1981. This replaced the older hard-wired system"

There was already an older plug and socket system- a single pin design the name of which I know not, but we had it in our house. So we did. The plug was stripey. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.12.69.244 (talk) 14:12, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

• That was the Post Office Plan 4 System - might merit a small mention, perhaps?? Also, the fact that the BT/BS6312 plug was chosen by Telecom New Zealand for use over there. (RM21 (talk) 05:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC))