Whenever you report a broadband fault to the Indian customer support team at your ISP you are always told to unplug all your internal wiring and connect your modem to the master socket. I had heard that you can improve your service a little by connecting to the master socket but I never really thought it could make a huge difference.
Today I know different! This week I have rewired our house of all its telephone cabling. We are 4 or 5 miles from the exchange. Our connection speed was struggling to reach 1MB/s. The modem is now locked in at a solid 2592KB/s and the online speed checker reports a consistent 2ishMB/s.
There were a couple of daisy-chained extentions and an external bell. Its just occured to me that with the old wiring system, the bell wasn’t even broadband-filtered. Most of the wiring seemed in pretty good condition.
The new BT master socket has a ‘filtered front’ on it. The Netgear modem sits right next to the socket on a very short length of cable. The two extension sockets and the external bell all connect to the master socket with top quality cable. The PCs in the house are supplied with Ethernet CAT5e cable from the Netgear modem/router.
So there we have it. It really is worth checking your home cabling and seeing what obstacles your broadband signal encounters. I know several of my clients who have very dodgy wiring under doorways, for example. You could improve your connection speed no end.
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