Hello
First the flattery! This is an amazing site, full of fascinating information. Thankyou
Secondly an apology. Not sure if this belongs in this board or not.
If you'll indulge a newbie with what'll no doubt prove to be asinine questios, then may I ask some questions.
I have a BT Home Hub, on a line with the BT main box, and 3 other extensions, one as a spur (4 sockets in toto)
I'm 5 days into the 10 day settling period, with download rates varying wildly, currently between 200 kbs upto 1800 kbs tested, and am able to get slightly better connection rates on the NTE5 test socket (attenuation improves by 2dB)
1) "According to BT, the actual line rate supportable will be determined during the first 10 days of use, after which time the highest stable rate possible will be set". Lots of experimentation means that I've had lots of resets etc, not to mention that we're in the wild countryside here, with overhead lines and lousy weather of late, so I've paid for it the past couple of days with real download rates in the region of 200Kbps. Does the BT statement mean I'm stuck with whatever is set after those first 10 days?
2) My extension wiring is all 4 wire, and not really amenable to re-cabling. If I use the modified ADSL filter Adaptor for the BT NTE5 (the one with 6 connectors) can I use the ring and spare wires (the two orange striped ones to 3 and 4) as internal filtered adsl lines to one or more of the extensions using modular sockets? I'm not sure if they're a twisted pair, seems unlikely uless that's standard phone cabling.
There then won't be a ring signal to any of the extensions, so
a) do modern digial phones need the ring wire anyway? I've noticed my old DECT base station only has two connectors on the cable, so I assume the ring line isn't needed.
b) I know you can have upto two master sockets, which would allow me to reinstate the ring on at least one of the extensions. Does that capacitor/resistor combo degrade/attenuate the signal at all (would I lose some of the benefit of re-jigging it all in the first place!)? And how would I reinstate the ring on the other extensions without additional cabling?
Thanks for the help