What do you think ....

.....about my broadband speed. My exchange (Llanelli) is 96 metres away - I
can walk there in a minute. I am connected via Sky on LLU.

I did the test using speedtest.net and download speed is 7.04 and upload .51
..

I live in a block of flats and I moved, three weeks ago, from one flat to
another in the same complex and my BB speed has dropped by over 1mb/s into
the bargain. The exchange line comes into a box which is right beside my new
front door and from there gets distributed to the other flats. The flat I
previously occupied is about 20 metres further away from this box than where
I am now.

How can there be such a difference?

> BB speed has dropped by over 1mb/s into the bargain
> How can there be such a difference?

Got any extension sockets at the new address ?

It might be that there's some crap internal wiring - try going
directly into the test socket and see if it improves...

At my old address, I used to get ~2.5 Mbits/sec with Sky until I
did this and discovered a problem with my internal wiring - I
effectively had two master sockets in the house, and just had to
remove the second set of electronics (just unclipped) and my speed
leapt to up to 7Mbits/sec.

The Wanderer wrote:

> How can there be such a difference?

The phone wiring in the new flat is less broadband friendly than in the
old flat.

Rgds

Denis McMahon

OK, thanks for the replies thus far. Colin, I have just unplugged everything
from the master socket and plugged a cable direct from there to the router
and the result is exactly the same. I transferred all the filters from the
old flat and placed one at the Sky TV box outlet at the Television and one
at my landline outlet. The extensions to them split from the one master
socket so would it be in order to have just the one filter covering both Sky
TV and landline, or is it better the way I have them at present?

Should I also have one before the router?

Many Thanks


"Denis McMahon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> How can there be such a difference?
>
> The phone wiring in the new flat is less broadband friendly than in the
> old flat.
>
> Rgds
>
> Denis McMahon

Got any extension sockets at the new address ?

It might be that there's some crap internal wiring - try going directly into
the test socket and see if it improves...


OK, thanks for the replies thus far. Colin, I have just unplugged everything
from the master socket and plugged a cable direct from there to the router
and the result is exactly the same. I transferred all the filters from the
old flat and placed one at the Sky TV box outlet at the Television and one
at my landline outlet. The extensions to them split from the one master
socket so would it be in order to have just the one filter covering both Sky
TV and landline, or is it better the way I have them at present?

Should I also have one before the router?

Many Thanks

"Colin Wilson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> BB speed has dropped by over 1mb/s into the bargain
>> How can there be such a difference?
>
> Got any extension sockets at the new address ?
>
> It might be that there's some crap internal wiring - try going
> directly into the test socket and see if it improves...
>
> At my old address, I used to get ~2.5 Mbits/sec with Sky until I
> did this and discovered a problem with my internal wiring - I
> effectively had two master sockets in the house, and just had to
> remove the second set of electronics (just unclipped) and my speed
> leapt to up to 7Mbits/sec.

OK, thanks for the replies thus far. Colin, I have just unplugged everything
from the master socket and plugged a cable direct from there to the router
and the result is exactly the same. I transferred all the filters from the
old flat and placed one at the Sky TV box outlet at the Television and one
at my landline outlet. The extensions to them split from the one master
socket so would it be in order to have just the one filter covering both Sky
TV and landline, or is it better the way I have them at present?

Should I also have one before the router?

Many Thanks

> OK, thanks for the replies thus far. Colin, I have just unplugged everything
> from the master socket and plugged a cable direct from there to the router
> and the result is exactly the same.

By the sounds of it, you haven't gone directly into the test socket
behind the front plate of the master socket yet - it's worth giving
that a go.

All hard-wired extensions should theoretically be connected to the
front plate, so by removing that and going direct into the "test"
socket behind, you should be getting the best possible signal from
the incoming cable.

Take out the two screws in the front of the master, and pull the
bottom cover out directly towards you - behind that front plate is
another socket of the normal size / shape - give that a whirl :-)

"The Wanderer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "Colin Wilson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> BB speed has dropped by over 1mb/s into the bargain
>>> How can there be such a difference?
>>
>> Got any extension sockets at the new address ?
>>
>> It might be that there's some crap internal wiring - try going
>> directly into the test socket and see if it improves...
>>
>> At my old address, I used to get ~2.5 Mbits/sec with Sky until I
>> did this and discovered a problem with my internal wiring - I
>> effectively had two master sockets in the house, and just had to
>> remove the second set of electronics (just unclipped) and my speed
>> leapt to up to 7Mbits/sec.
>
> OK, thanks for the replies thus far. Colin, I have just unplugged everything
> from the master socket and plugged a cable direct from there to the router
> and the result is exactly the same. I transferred all the filters from the
> old flat and placed one at the Sky TV box outlet at the Television and one
> at my landline outlet. The extensions to them split from the one master
> socket so would it be in order to have just the one filter covering both Sky
> TV and landline, or is it better the way I have them at present?
>
> Should I also have one before the router?
>
> Many Thanks

The latter. Ie a single filter to which all of your telephone devices are
connected. You can get a filtered faceplate to replace the existing one
on your NTE5 master socket, this is much neater than using a dongle filter.

The socket that serves *only* your router does not need a filter, the
RJ11 on a filter connects directly to the line so there is no point, apart
from the fact that the patch lead you are using probably has an RJ11
plug on both ends so the filter serves as an RJ11 to BT adapter.

Another approach would be to use an RJ11 socket as the dedicated
unfiltered outlet for the router if it needs to be remote from the master.

In either case use just one pair of wires. Do not run a bell wire from pin 3

--
Graham.

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"The Wanderer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> ....about my broadband speed. My exchange (Llanelli) is 96 metres away - I
> can walk there in a minute. I am connected via Sky on LLU.
>
> I did the test using speedtest.net and download speed is 7.04 and upload
> .51 .
>
> I live in a block of flats and I moved, three weeks ago, from one flat to
> another in the same complex and my BB speed has dropped by over 1mb/s into
> the bargain.

What is the practical problem with dropping from 8 to 7 Mbps? There are
still many people (myself included) who manage fairly happliy on a fraction
of that.
--
Hungerdunger
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hungerdunger wrote:
> "The Wanderer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> ....about my broadband speed. My exchange (Llanelli) is 96 metres away - I
>> can walk there in a minute. I am connected via Sky on LLU.
>>
>> I did the test using speedtest.net and download speed is 7.04 and upload
>> .51 .
>>
>> I live in a block of flats and I moved, three weeks ago, from one flat to
>> another in the same complex and my BB speed has dropped by over 1mb/s into
>> the bargain.
>
> What is the practical problem with dropping from 8 to 7 Mbps? There are
> still many people (myself included) who manage fairly happliy on a fraction
> of that.

Id happily trade my 2600/448 for symmetrical 1.5 each way..


Having spend the morning uploading 200 images to a remote server..