VDSL broadband phone line connector box - remove?

[minilathe22]

Hi All

I moved into a new house which for one reason or another has not had broadband connected before. Its FTTC. I can see the line come in from the street, go through the small connector box pictured below, and then into the master socket. there is one extension connected to the master socket.

I work from home often and I am in IT so I really want to optimize the reliability and speed of the broadband connection. I will disconnect the extension socket as I believe some "echo" can happen to the signal if these are still connected and I dont need it anyway. My question is can I remove the small connector box and have the phone line from outside go straight into the back of the master socket? The connector box is very old and clearly designed before any from of broadband was sent on the cable.

 

[Sideways]

Personally, being electrically and IT literate, I ran a clean length of twisted pair cable from the outdoor box where the BT cable first hits our property to the master socket positioned in the house where I wanted it.
This is far better than the installation by BT which had the socket just inside the front door and a short piece of cable shoved through a hole drilled in my door frame.
It's all on your own head but my work was never even commented on the couple of times I had to call BT out to do maintenance on their line to the house.

We've gone to Virgin fibre just recently but they are an obnoxious company. I'll ditch them at the end of the contract and If VM don't do a deal to allow other companies to share their fibre, I'll go back to Zen even if this is only 30Mb/s over the copper connection.

 

[minilathe22]

My main concern was that the box pictured might have some circuitry inside that is required. I guess I could carefully inspect the back of the circuit board and if its just a splitter I will remove it.

 

[Stuart Moffat]

Will you actually be having a traditional phone line, or having a voip service delivered over your broadband connection (which is becoming compulsory). If the latter your phone line will be plugged into your router or some other interface, not into the master socket. A traditional phone line uses a pair of wires in a conventional electric circuit. The broadband signal, including any voip type service will be transmitted down just one wire of that pair (more like a radio transmitter /receiver). I once had a fault on my phone line caused by a car crashing into a street cabinet and physically breaking wires. I was left with no phone line, but full broadband. Which rather changed my attitude and understanding.

 

[Lons]

What Stuart said. You'll be losing your landline in the near future and will only be offered VOIP which will be plugged into your router or they give you one of those adapters that connects via your 13amp ring circuit. Either way they'll charge you a few quid a month to keep it.
I kept my 'phone on that basis for a few months then dumped it altogether as the only calls we got were nuisance type. As we both have unlimited minutes and text via mobiles it was a no brainer.