Trying to speed up our 1MBit/s home inet!

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Atm we have a useless talk talk router which kicks off any mobile devices after a couple of minutes, so im replacing this with a netgear dg834pn router which worked before it broke [due to a lightning strike]

the router is NOT conected to the master socket as of now

My PC is wireless [has to be because where it is placed]


main questions.

-will an iplate likely help if i connect the router to the master socket?
-the master socket is much further away than where the router is now..will this reduce the speed negating any benefit from the master socket/iplate combo?
-we have talk talk as an ISP but can change providing the cost is £10-15 per month.

is there anything else that might help?
 
ok im missing something here,

on doing the bt speedtest this is the result
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but trying to load a youtube video [and infact any downloading] i get a max rate of
50-60KBps [or 400-500 Kbps, about 1/4 of the speed test!]
 
No llu providers at all, i already checked that, also puts costs up at same time as slow speed.

Will moving the router to the master socket outweigh the extra distance it puts between the pc and router?

I can plug the router into the master socket but have not tried it yet, as for the bell wire, not removed, must detrimentally affect something doing that surely
 
looks like im being capped during peak times, this morning its back to the full 1.5Mbit/s speed that i can cope with, its the 0.5Mbit speeds during weekday evenings that does my head in!

So i guess my issue is with ISP, but then again, around here they probably all do it. i will still try moving the router to the master socket tho.
 
is that definitely uncapped? the same provider was mentioned before?

Im fairly sure looking at bandwidth over the last week it is capping? does it sound like it to you guys?

EDT, looks like thats capped too at peak times on their support pages, looks like i cant get away from it being in a 'slow' area

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this system would also explain why i can get 1.5Mbit when doing a speed test but while trying to stream be unable to at 0.4Mbit
 
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What I was trying to get at was looks like what plusnet do is exactly the same as i get with talk talk now, so therefore switching would likely yeild a no quicker service

Before looking into a new isp I will definitely try the master socket as it costs nothing, will need to see if the wireless signal can reach the pc though!
 
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