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Thanks for the reply kits. I'm not sure if you read the whole of the thread, but the max line speed with adsl is only 8mb from the exchange, and I live around 2 miles from it, so I see no point in spending money for such a small improvement.

I appreciate the suggestions, but really I'm more concerned about the pathetic fibre speeds available to me thanks to BTs penny pinching. It seems I already have my answer though, which is that it's not going to improve because BT won't spend any money to fix it.
 
one way to see if it is your line is to order another line into the home so new cabling to home have this terminate where you want the router and see if speeds improve. If so you can then cancel old line but never cancel the old one until new is up and running or but will use same cabling.

BT's equipment works out your possible line speeds from what you are experiencing now this is handicapped by your internal wireing.

If you have a laptop try connecting router into master socket then test speeds from there with extension disconnected.
 
Thanks kits.

I'm not so sure about how BT works out the fibre speeds though. For example, I referenced a friend's predicted speed from the BT checker. They don't have any internet at present.

I will try plugging the router in directly though just out of interest.
 
When they have no internet at all then the results are more inline with neighbours who have, sadly if you have connection BT's equipment is a for ever moving goal posts. I suggest to all friends to take image of the speeds with date for proof as if speeds are reduced BT always come back with that is all your line can handle. In my case I have proof it isn't had long online times at 79Mbps but they estimate no faster than 60 now thanks to crosstalk also degrading copper which they do not change unless your line dies completely then it is only the damaged part not complete to cabinet.
 
one way to see if it is your line is to order another line into the home so new cabling to home have this terminate where you want the router and see if speeds improve. If so you can then cancel old line but never cancel the old one until new is up and running or but will use same cabling.

BT's equipment works out your possible line speeds from what you are experiencing now this is handicapped by your internal wireing.

If you have a laptop try connecting router into master socket then test speeds from there with extension disconnected.

Err, be careful, the cables have more than one pair of signal wires, so in theory they could just wire up a 2nd line from the "spare" pairs.

I nearly suffered this when I had a 2nd line put in to get away from the TT take-over of my Vispa line; luckily the engineer decided the (2 year old line!!) was in too bad a condition, so ran a fresh one.
 
Not as easy if new line is terminating in the bedroom upstairs not where it terminates now.
 
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Not as easy if new line is terminating in the bedroom upstairs not where it terminates now.

My "2nd" line was into the bedroom, the engineer still went and tried the spare pairs first.
 
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