Am I expecting too much?

thecremeegg · 7 Jan 2009 at 23:25

Just got O2 Broadband and I'm only getting 2mb

I have attenuation of 57.5 down and 25 up, is this likely to be the issue? I assume 57.5 is pretty high?

Cheers

tolien · 7 Jan 2009 at 23:30

It's very high. ~4-6km of copper from the exchange.

thecremeegg · 7 Jan 2009 at 23:35

I have a mate who has the same figures yet gets 4mb....the only difference is that he was getting 2 until he removed the bell wire. Does it really make that much of a difference?

gillywibble · 7 Jan 2009 at 23:37

It can, yes.

tolien · 7 Jan 2009 at 23:50

Try connecting your modem to the master socket with no extensions too.

thecremeegg · 7 Jan 2009 at 23:50

I'll give that a go tomorrow then, once I've located the master socket

Cheers peeps

thecremeegg · 8 Jan 2009 at 15:06

Right had a look for the master socket, can only find this:

Is this it? I assume its ancient as it doesnt look like any master socket i've seen

Skidilliplop · 8 Jan 2009 at 15:31

I'm not seeing any link or image there.... if you trace back your phone cables there will be one point they all end up at, this is the master socket. It's usually near a window frame or door frame as they're the easiest places to bring cables in from outside.

thecremeegg · 8 Jan 2009 at 15:37

Can you not see the picture? Its linked from photobucket so should be visible. I've concluded it is my master socket, but its so old that its a complete maze of cables. It seems that each socket in the house has a different colour wired into it, which means finding which are the ring wires is going to take hours!

Skidilliplop · 8 Jan 2009 at 15:42

shoudln't do in the master socket you'll have one 3 pair cable coming in from the street with a blue pair green pair and orange pair. The green won't connect to anything, the blue is your signal pair and the orange is the ring pair. You can also check the voltages with a multimeter. Gimme a sec I'll find out what they should be. The line will be 48v i'm not sure if the ring wire is the same voltage but higher amps or lower voltage.

Daegan · 8 Jan 2009 at 15:50

Looks like a junction box not your master socket.

Skidilliplop · 8 Jan 2009 at 15:55

According to google ring voltage is going to be between 60 and 80volts, the signal pair will be about 48-50v so you should be able to identify them that way.

thecremeegg · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:08

Ah cheers for that Skidilliplop, I'll get the multimeter out. Daegan is this not the master socket in your eyes then? If so theres still hope!

Daegan · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:50

thecremeegg said:
Daegan is this not the master socket in your eyes then?

No, shouldn't a master socket actually have a socket? Where do the cables lead from/to?