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Fibre to the home question

SteveWest — Sun, 19 May 2024 14:18:58 GMT

We are now eligible for fibre to the home. I understand that there is an additional modem that has to be plugged into the mains and videos show houses with a spare twin gang mains socket where the router and modem are plugged in. In my case, I don't have a spare (or indeed any) twin ganged mains sockets in the room where I've currently got the BT router. In fact I don't have one in any of the rooms on the street side of the house. Is there any problem in plugging the modem and router into a trailing multi-socket extension lead?

Thanks!

Re: Fibre to the home question

ptrduffy — Sun, 19 May 2024 14:34:45 GMT

An extension lead will be fine.

Re: Fibre to the home question

SteveWest — Sun, 19 May 2024 14:42:12 GMT

Great. Thanks.

Re: Fibre to the home question

Anonymous — Sun, 19 May 2024 14:54:15 GMT

You can get converter sockets from the likes of Screwfix/Toolstation that will convert a single gang socket to dual.

Re: Fibre to the home question

SteveWest — Sun, 19 May 2024 15:03:15 GMT

Yes. True. Thanks.