Anyone Explain This?
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My Broadband only got switched on last week, I was getting about 3.5mbps download speed.
Today I was looking at the BT master socket and noticed that the screws on the faceplate where loose. Instead of grabbing a screwdriver I unplugged the lower faceplate and plugged the ADSL filter directly into the test socket.
I do not have any other phone sockets wired in the house so removing the plate should not have effected anything.
Well I just did another speed test and my Broadband speed has gone up to nearly 5mbps!
How is this possible? Surly removing the lower plate on the master socket could not have caused such and increase? Could it?
Al.
Today I was looking at the BT master socket and noticed that the screws on the faceplate where loose. Instead of grabbing a screwdriver I unplugged the lower faceplate and plugged the ADSL filter directly into the test socket.
I do not have any other phone sockets wired in the house so removing the plate should not have effected anything.
Well I just did another speed test and my Broadband speed has gone up to nearly 5mbps!
How is this possible? Surly removing the lower plate on the master socket could not have caused such and increase? Could it?
Al.
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If not, then it's probably just the fact you unplugged your router and replugged it causing it to re-sync with the exchange, and has obtained a higher speed.
You are probably right about re-syncing with the exchange. In the last few days my speed was at a constant 3.5mbps. Hopefully it stay up at 5mbps for good.
Seriously the fact that you have those sockets means that when you used the Test Socket, you isolated them. They don't need to be in use to cause interference.
To move forward. Try removing the Orange & White wire(s) from connector 3 on the back of the faceplate of the Master Socket.
The wiring for the slave sockets is there but just not connected.
I plugged the front plate back in and my speed dropped down again, removing it brings the speed straight back up to 4.55mbps.
Obviously my master socket has a fault in the connection between the front and rear plate. I am just glad I found it as it's nice to get the extra 1mbps that's come out of it.
I have seen them in Maplins and on eBay but have no idea how they are fitted.
The wiring from the street goes to the backing box of the socket. You can't normally see it. Any wires on the back of the face plate are extension cables not the BT line. It is quite common to use two or even three pair cable to wire up extensions so the unused pairs may be left coiled up under the face plate.
All he connected was the blue wire and the White wire, he left all the wiring for the extension sockets, never touched them. I don't need any other phones in the house and none of the other sockets (2 of them) are used as they both have blanking plates on them.
All that's connected to my master socket is the incoming BT wiring from the street.
Plain and simple, why is my broadband slower with the faceplate fitted and faster without it? Surly it should not make a difference seeing as I have no other extension wiring connected to it!
That fit's my observation here too. I get the same speed whether in the test socket or the master socket. Same deal - no extensions here either.
They are
My house is less than 4 months old and my phone was only connected 3 weeks ago and I never got one.
I had to pay £12.00 to get mine.
How come BT never gave me one?
I got mine today anyway and its fitted, speed has not dropped and it is sitting steady at 4.6mbps so I am happy.
The site electrician did the internal telephone wiring and ran the incoming wire out to the junction box but BT installed the Master Socket and connected the incoming wiring to the exchange.
This is how all new houses are done though!
One rule here, another rule there.
Put the master socket here, put the master socket there. Give them the old version or give them the new version, builders doing half the job for them and they still cock it up.
No-wonder it took 4 months and an email to the CEO of BT to get my phone connected.