Moving Telkom Connection Point

[SpoonTech]

I need to move a Telkom Telephone/ADSL connection point from one room to another. After contacting Telkom they have said that the cost will be R490 for installation of a new point and R15.60 a month for the new point. Is that not a bit rediculous. 10m of RJ11 with a few connectors will set me back R2000.00 over a ten year period. The materials cost about R40 and the labour a few hundred maybe.

I have tried looking at the connection point to see if I can disconnect it and then feed the cable through the roof myself. The box seems hard to open. There is a plastic screw head looking thing that is too narrow to turn with a coin or screwdriver. I don't have a RJ11 crimper or any connectors so I don't want to cut any of the cables. Is there a trick to getting these open?

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

Get an extension cable - with a plug on either end - plug one end into the existing connection, the other into a spltter plug - one goes to phone other to router.

Got my cable from Connector Technology in KZN.

That aside - I did what you did initially - paid Telkom to do the work. Had all sorts of line feedback issues - noise on the line, and I was told my split was ''unbalanced'' by the very next Telkom guy who came to fix is 6 weeks later....

 

[RoganDawes]

Meh, it's not so tricky. Get some 2 core cable, open the box with a screwdriver (turn about 90 degrees to release the locking pin, then lift the cover off vertically, bringing the locking pin with it, IIRC). Run it to wherever you want it. Wire up a new box, paying attention to how it was previously wired to the current box. Done.

 

[SpoonTech]

I can't turn the locking pin with a screwdriver. The slot is too narrow. Maybe I should drill it out

 

[johanniemann5@gmail.com]

I want to move my line in oldage home from one room to another both has connection points

 

[ponder]

I want to move my line in oldage home from one room to another both has connection points

Do both points have cables?