Router position

[Terry Everall]

I have a DrayTek router and we only have about 3MB/sec broadband speed. I was talking to someone the other day and they said I should locate the router as close as possible to the BT main socket coming into the house and it would then speed up the broadband/WiFi a bit 

At the moment the router is in another room and has about 6 to 7m of telephone wire feeding the router

Would you move it?

[pistonbroke]

Doubt 6/7 mtrs would have that much effect on speed tbh the fact its wireless will slow down more , wireless router gives a delay when its processing the signal , but that causes "lag" more than reducing overall speed . 

[CraigHew]

Well if you're having problems I'd try and move it to see the difference.

 

I used to have my home office downstairs in the room where the master socket was located.  When I relocated to a spare upstairs room, I left the modem where it was and used Powerline adapters to get this LAN around my house very sucessfully.

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

3mb !!! I bet they get faster than that at the North Pole.....lol

[Terry Everall]

Its sometimes only 2Ms/s !!!!!! and i live on edge of York 

[Stuart]

I only get 1.9 Mb/s just outside Worcester.  We might as well be on the north pole 'cos there's no chance of cable/fibre as not enough punters on the exchange (but there are enough to make the BT line groan under the strain).  Just bought myself a Billion router so I can have a play with the SNR on the line see if I can tweak it up a bit

[corsechris]

We typically get those sort of numbers on the ADSL lines at work as we are a fair way from the nearest exchange and the copper bundle is in a poor state. Good job we also have a 10G Raman link or two coming onto site.

 

At home, I fitted one of those BT Openreach style master sockets that has the filter built in. Main benefit is it isolates the rest of your phone wiring from the main incoming line so you can get a lot less HF attenuation as a result, so often better link speeds. Also means you don't need filters on all the other sockets in the house assuming you still have POTS kit plugged in that is.

 

Not wanting to rub it in, but I usually see 18MBPS data rates at home. Always see a link speed around 20MBPS. About 200m from the exchange as the wire runs, direct link. Quaint old setup, but it does mean I still can't get FFTC as there's no 'C' yet, even though the rest of the village is done.

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Oh well if we are bragging, i have B T infinity up to 40 mb and usually get 38/39mb....lol

[Blatman]

I'm about to have a 1Gb internet connection installed at home 

 

And I agree, a few meters of extension cable inside the house will make naff all difference to the speed of the connection.

A new BT master socket with a built in filter may help. You might also want to try one of these:

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/products/7256-british-telecom-iplate/

[Andy Banks]

What Blatters says, made a little bit of difference to my feeble ADSL and at 3-4mbps it really helps.

[Terry Everall]

I have moved the router now and will get an Iplate. Do you mean  get a NEW BT master socket rather than fit the iplate to my existing socket?

I do not have any extension phones

[SootySport]

An i plate will not make any difference as you don't have any extention cabling.    If you want to keep the router & long lead  (RJ11) where it is now you do need a good lead from the filter to router.  It needs to be twisted pairs and screened, the Belkin leads are particularly good.

[Terry Everall]

The router is now plugged directly into the filter attached to the main incoming socket

[corsechris]

Oh well if we are bragging, i have B T infinity up to 40 mb and usually get 38/39mb....lol

 

Wasn't bragging, more just wanting to say that ADSL2+ can achieve the advertised rates in the real world if conditions are favorable. At my last place I was also close to the exchange and usually got close to maximum numbers.

 

If you do have any internal extension wiring an 'I' plate would probably help a bit - effectively the same as using a new Openreach style master socket really although apparently the filters on the Openreach box are supposed to be better?

 

If you don't have any extension wiring then it's unlikely to do anything much. Always worth checking you have a quiet line if the BB is a bit slow.

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

And I was only joking.....