Supercharge your broadband
In this issue of PCAnswers we have 11 pages of tips, tricks and hacks to a faster internet connection. Joe Cassels goes into great detail on your phoneline setup, how this affects your connection speed and how to remedy the possible pitfalls of your home setup.
With router admin settings, a dabble with your phone line wiring and general arrangement of your phoneline appliances, you'll unlock the true potential of your internet connection.
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Supercharge your broadband
pca_Adstone - 26 October 2008 - 11:46amInteresting article but I wonder how many readers are in a similar situation to me.
I live in the countryside about 3km away from the exchange, part of the connections to my village use aluminium cables which are always giving BT Openreach problems. Whichever service provider I choose they are limited to using the same cabling.
I have BT Broadband claimed to be "up to 8meg download speed". The BT engineer who tested my line on two separate occasions stated I should get 2.3 and 2.7 meg. BT has "configured" my service to be 1.2meg (it usually runs slower than this) and they are not interested that their own engineer can achieve more.
I have an integrated ADSL faceplate main socket and if I replaced this I have no doubt I would get no sympathy from BT if it went wrong and I am sure they would want unlimited access to my bank account. I don't think the consequences of tampering with the cables into the main socket was mentioned in the article.
Overall I am relieved to not be using dial-up but I cannot see any option which would improve my Broadband service.
Andrew Stone