Socket Wires Not Connected

[memoriafuturi]

So, I decided to move my router to a different room. But when I took off the faceplate to check the wiring I found that there were 2 cables to the socket and neither were connected.

I'm slightly confused why there are two cables and what I should do with them. I was planning on just connecting up a Openreach Telephone Master Socket MK4.

Any advice on whether I use one of the cables, both or something else would be great. Thanks!

[Keith_Beddoe]

@memoriafuturi 

Who provides your phone and broadband service?

[memoriafuturi]

BT. They came an installed my socket for broadband when I subscribed. But this is a different socket. I've never used it before, don't use landline, but now want to use for broadband....

[Keith_Beddoe]

If there is no dial tone when you plug a phone into the socket, then its not connected to your phone line, and you will not get broadband. You would have to try and trace where it goes.

[memoriafuturi]

I just have two cables coming from the wall. They're not connected to anything. So basically I was surprised I had two cables and not 1. If you could advise what I do with them, I can connect and do a test. I've attached a couple of pics that hopefully clarifies...

Thanks

[licquorice]

You need to trace where the cables go, we can't see from here.

[imjolly]

You need to check the master socket and see if any cables are connected to terminals 2&5

do you have another extension socket in your home?

[memoriafuturi]

So I guess the socket that I've been using is the master socket. I haven't pulled it apart to check as it works fine, but will do. I guess I was expecting this other socket to be wired, or if not wired, have only one cable coming out of the plug. The two cables has kind of confused me. I don't believe there are any other sockets in the house. Is there a reason that there would be two cables for this socket? Do I need to attach them both, or just one cable? Thanks

[imjolly]

the 2 wires coming into socket is often done with 1 wire coming from the master socket and the other wire going to another extension socket somewhere else in your home - sockets connected in series

[memoriafuturi]

I thought this might be the case. So one of the cables is from the master socket and the other is to connect to some other socket in the house (that I don't know where it is). So can I just connect both cables to the same master socket - basically just putting 2 wires into each of the connectors. I guess I could also try to figure out which cable is from the master socket and which is planned to be the extension - but maybe just connecting both cables to the extension socket would be the easiest solution?