Upgrade modem/router and an iPlate to increase speed?

[griffy]

I currently have slow broadband on a non LLU exchange, and because of the distance to the exchange, my broadband is quoted to be around 1meg

I have a Belkin N1 Vision modem/router and it works fine, connecting around 1650kbps, with downloads maxing out at 170kb/sec

I recently had some wireless network problems so pulled out my old Netgear DG834G modem/router and plugged that in instead, and was a little shocked to see it connect at around 1952kbps and downloads now max out at 215kb/sec

The Belkin N1 does not seem to give out line stats like the Netgear, the Netgear says my line attenuation is 60dB which explains the slow connection, all down to distance I guess?

I am considering upgrading to a new modem/router, as I liked the N wireless speed and better coverage, as the Netgear is only rated G. I use my wireless for an ipod touch, macbook pro, psp, appleTV, ps3 and wii! so the higher speed and wireless signal strength was nice.

Any reccomendations please???

Also would an iPlate make any difference on my line? I'm pretty sure the extension cable coming out of my BT master socket only uses 2 wires, so no bell wire. I'm told the iPlate only filters out bell wire interference, so it won't make any difference whatsoever

 

[griffy]

I only have my modem/router and a cordless phone basestation plugged into the one extension that comes from the BT master socket. They go through the normal cheap plugin filter.

Would this XTE-2005 faceplate make any difference? It sounds like it filters out the noise on the 2 wire phone system? Therefore improving my connection? If thats the case then it sounds like I will try and find one online, with the cable tool.

Any more speed/stabilty is a bonus!

 

[griffy]

There is a 2 core BT extension from the master, no bell wire. Its only about 12m long. Is it really worth that much? If so I could run a 12m cat5 cable from it to the iMac