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http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,122971.msg1078714.html#msg1078714Moved to here and deleted from there.
OK, so just wanted to post a bit of an update of my previous post.
Shortly after the previous post, my Fibre broadband connection went faulty and couldn't stay connected at all.
Turned out to be a faulty port in the cabinet but the Openreach Engineer also visited the house. Nice to have a thorough guy who checked everything over.
When he was checking, he noticed the "data extension" which was put in for the VDSL modem was what he called "Star" wired from the master socket in the hallway. He said that was not supposed to be done like that for Fibre connections. He basically terminated a cable patch permanently to the data extension / filtered faceplate from the pair entering the Building. This made what was the data extension to be the master socket now. He then patched the original master as an extension.
The existing (flawed) wiring setup was done by the Openreach install contractor a year ago.
I also asked him to disconnect the other extension in the house, which were left connected to the master as a part of the original install. I no longer needed them anyway with cordless phones and it just tidied everything up minimising the extra unterminated internal cabling.
So since then, I have had a completely stable connection, so I stand corrected that it is possible to have a stable connection on the HH5 current firmware. However, I am still of the belief the firmware update made the modem much more sensitive to connection instability problems. My connection functioned with minimal disconnections until the time of the firmware update.
Any that's my view / theory - difficult to prove now the wiring's been fixed and port swapped.
Just to be 100% clear, my wiring set up was definitively not causing my total loss of connection, as he rectified that and the fault was still present (before swapping ports) but he did say it would create a level of instability.
Rgds,
AndrewD
