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[UK] Help extending VDSL / Broadband to Living Room Phone socket

Hi everyone, hoping someone can help me figure out what’s going wrong with my extension wiring setup.

Current Setup & What I've Done:
(FTTC)

Master Socket (Bedroom 1): I have upgraded my old master socket to a new Openreach NTE5c backplate with a filtered Mk4 faceplate. (Images still showing old backplate and faceplate but I have now updated)

Incoming Feed: The main Openreach incoming line is connected to A and B on the NTE5c backplate. My router is currently plugged into Bedroom 1 and working perfectly.
Extension Line in Master Box: There is a second 8-core grey cable in the master back box. Originally, its Blue, White/Blue, and Orange wires were punched into terminals 2, 3, and 5 on the old front plate.

Living Room: in the living room, I have a TV/media plate with a telephone socket.

What I Tried & The Issue:

  1. Continuity Test: I stripped the living room socket wires, twisted them together, and tried testing for continuity on the Blue & White/Blue pair at the master socket (Bedroom 1). I got no continuity beep on my multimeter.

  2. Discovered a Daisy-Chain: I checked Bedroom 2 and found that it has two grey extension cables coming into the back of the socket. It looks like the wiring runs in a daisy-chain from Bedroom 1 -> Bedroom 2 -> Living Room.

  3. Mk4 Front Plate Wiring: I disconnected the extension Blue & White/Blue pair from terminals 2 and 5 in Bedroom 1 and wired them directly into the unfiltered A and B Data Terminals on the rear of the new Mk4 faceplate to pass raw VDSL down the line.

  4. Result: The router still won't sync when moved down to the living room (or even in Bedroom 2 using a direct BT-to-RJ11 cable).

My Goal:
I want my router plugged into the telephone socket down in the Living Room, using the existing extension wiring.

Questions :

  1. Is this daisy-chain setup in Bedroom 2 breaking the VDSL signal pass-through to the living room?
  2. How should I wire or bridge the two cables in Bedroom 2 so the raw signal from A & B goes straight down to the living room?
  3. Do I need a microfilter or a specific pin-out on my BT-to-RJ11 cable when plugging into an extension socket that's fed from the Mk4's A/B terminals
  4. Is what im trying to achieve even possible?
u/VincentoTheGamer — 19 hours ago