Well done for that lot, you've done everything correctly.
The BT66, as far as the BT incoming cable is concerned, don't bother to do anything with those wires, just gently tuck the unused ones back in the box on the LHS.
The unused extension wires, loosely twist the pairs and coil the lot up on the RHS perhaps towards the bottom.
The wires for the connection to the black cable just gently tuck in fairly centrally. We don't want anything snapping off.
The cable that goes round the house would seem to be standard drop-wire and the 3 white (possibly pale yellow) are the steel strainer wires which have been neatly dealt with.
There should be no further need to look at or go into this BT66 box again.
The NTE5A - fine, I take it you've put the faceplate back.
The white junction box - a bit of a shoddy job IMHO, the way the box was fitted leaving the incoming black cable untidily exposed in that manner - but that's not the problem, the cable from here to the NTE5A is the issue, being old standard non-twisted pair.
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I was concerned that there was a fault between the new master socket and the old grey BT junction box that is used at the point of entry. However, none of the BTO engineers thought it was the problem.
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And how right you were - but not faulty - wrong standard of cable internally, would have made a mess of FTTC.
How long is this cable from the junction box to the NTE5A (roughly)?
I'm guessing that you had an engineer visit when you were supposedly getting FTTC and that "engineer" fitted the current NTE5A with the Mk2 plate. I'm also going to guess that it was an Openreach sub-contractor (unless you are in N.I.) maybe Kelly or Quinn?
Whoever it was should have recognised that this cable was old standard and replaced it.
It is totally unsuitable, for FTTC in particular, and for good ADSL in general. It will be picking up MW/AM propagation far worse at night as well as a lot of other garbage (maybe REIN).
Looking at your Fibre thread, there are some inconsistencies on all these distances.
This supposed short run to the Cabinet. I understand you know where the Fibre Cabinet is, but is it near your standard PCP Cabinet?
When you ran the BTw ADSL Checker, it should have told you which Cabinet your were connected to, before all the data below.
Your incoming cable is underground, if I've understood one of your previous posts correctly, it ends up going up a pole (possibly the DP), how close is that? Does it go back down underground or continue overhead to the cabinet?
Line of Sight distances are no good unless you can see the cable. Cables in general will follow roads/footpaths, in some rural locations may go under fields.
Once you get to your PCP Cabinet, the cable then goes to the Fibre Cabinet for Fibre, or onto the exchange for ADSL. So you may have some extra distance from PCP to Fibre Cab for Fibre if they aren't next to each other.
The results from the BTw ADSL checker and the performance you are getting now & got on FTTC suggest that your 'D' side cable (PCP Cab to the DP) might be of poor quality or is faulty.
As has been mentioned, the Attenuation being reported by the modem/router is not consistent with the estimates of the speed you should get (and therefore the distances involved).
Just to wrap up this particular post, what modem/router are you currently using? The TG582n you had for Fibre, have you still got it - did you reconfigure it for ADSL? Did Plusnet supply another TG582n when you went back to ADSL?
