Hi everyone
I moved into a new place in January and initially I connected a BT home hub router to an extension socket in my house to get me up and running. The speeds were terrible and unreliable (25mb and intermittent disconnections), way under the 55mb I was quoted at signup (im paying for 52mb Infinity 1 service).
After a few weeks getting other things in the house sorted I then turned by attention to sorting this out.
I have since made the following changes:
- Replaced the existing NTE5c master socket with an NTE5a + MK3 VDSL faceplate. I did consider the MK4 faceplate but my NTE5c faceplate was coming loose when the front door was shut and disconnecting the extension my router was connected to, I think a previous person has loosened/broken its clips. The NTE5a has screws so can't come loose, this seemed in my eyes a better solution.
- Removed all the existing poor quality extensions
- Ran a new VDSL extension from the MK3 faceplate into my cupboard using CAT5e
- Purchased a Huawei openreach modem and unlocked to get line stats, connected to my own router
The connection is now much better, i'm getting 40mb down 10mb up with great uptimes (5 days without retrain), here are my line stats from my modem:
I'm wondering if there is anything more I can do to improve the speeds? Would love to get as close to 52mb as possible. The BT wholesale speed checker says I should get from 42-60mb?
Only thing I can think of is between my NTE5a and the BT line coming into the property there is some kind of old BT junction box in line, could I remove/replace this?
Thanks in advance