On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:10:45PM +0100, keith.jamieson@bt.com wrote:
Adam Have you tried to remove the house internal wiring. I live in a 12 year old house and it brings my speed down from 3.5m to 1m when I have all the internal wiring connected!!!! If you have a "split face plate master socket" then you can remove the bottom half and plug directly into the socket inside. This should remove all the internal wiring and have a "straight to bt" connection. Try and see what sync rate this has on your router. It will take a few days for the BRAS rate come up. Also on this detachable front plate you can remove the wire on connection 3 (or 4 ) as this is just the ringer circuit - you just need wire 2 and wire 5, usually white/blue and blue.
This is a brand new house, the ADSL was plugged directly in to the master socket from day one as I wanted to see if the internal wiring was up to scratch. I'm aware of fiddling with which wires, I did over 20 ADSL installs for a chain of shops a couple of years back (using dg834's) I've even had to tell BT guys how to fix things a couple of times as they weren't sure what they were doing and I also discovered all manner of weird and wonderful different faults you can get when trying to get adsl working when the internal wiring in a building is so hacked about working which of the 3 master sockets is really the master socket :)
Anyhow, I gave up on the ADSL max a while back and went back to a normal 1 meg connection as saving some money and not having a bandwidth cap were much more beneficial than the extra upstream (which was nice, but not worth the price premium).
Thanks Adam