My master socket used to be in the hall but last year when i had an engineer out because of some ADSL problems he offered to move it somewhere more convenient for free.  Only cost me some tea and biscuits which I thought was a pretty good investment.! ... View more

Quote from: ejs Having only 11n devices on your network won't necessarily avoid that, because the backwards compatibility is for everything operating on the same channel. I was with you until that bit.  Surely having only 11n devices on your network means that the router will not slow down to accommodate older standards?  It would only do that if e.g. you had equipment with an 11g receiver, no?  If you only have 11n then it will transmit at the faster speeds? ??? ... View more

RJ11 just describes the connectors, not the cable.  You need to make sure it's at least twisted pair.  Based on my own experience I'd get CW1308 (99p a metre at Maplin, so won't break the bank) cable without ends, cut to length, and buy a telephone extension socket which you wire it up to.    You can then site this wherever you want. ... View more

I'm pretty sure the Master Socket belongs to BTOR and you're not actually allowed to move it - someone correct me if I'm wrong. But there's nothing to stop you fitting an extension using twisted pair CW1308 cable like I did after advice from people on this very Forum.  You won't get any degradation with that professional-grade cable for a good 200m so unless your living room's enormous you should be fine :) edit: should add that mine was for ADSL so not sure if you need different cable for Fibre? ... View more

OK, will do ... View more

Hi AndyH, happy to try it, but what would that do, exactly? I was with Onetel until November last year.  2Mb, steady but veeeeery slow.  Service OK but a lot of buffering with video.  Skype ran OK, though, but gaming did suffer from some lag.  Upgraded to 8Mb with Tesco BB, but appalling service and extreme fluctuating line, so moved to PN last month.  Initially big problems but exceptional help from people on here enabled me to re-wire my sockets and line improved immensely.  Probs with Technicolor router which disappeared when I reverted back to my old Netgear.  Line stabilised for a while but the last few days has seen some issues, culminating in today where my latency seems to be going off the charts. Could be a line fault, of course, but generally I have not had major issues with Skype or gaming for a while, since I re-wired my extensions, although I have noticed some degradation in the evenings.  This evening, though, it's been very poor and my TBB graph is showing a lot of blue. Question: if it's a fault why does it only really show itself in the evenings? ... View more

ok, thanks.  Any ideas why it only really seems to happen in the evening, though?  During day seems much better. I've switched to another gateway and no improvement (see attached).  Any thoughts? ... View more

I don't know what's going on with my line lately but this can't be normal.  Are there network / gateway issues this evening? ... View more

here you go ... View more

I'm wondering if it might be quicker to put web pages in the post :crazy: ... View more

My son likes to stream video, which is why the line looks constantly active.  Today we noticed some buffering which is unusual as it's been fairly reliable for a while now. I did the pingtest check after I ran into problems with Skype, as I wanted an instant check which TBB won't give me, and the results seemed to confirm that there were problems on the line at the time.  Also, the BT speedtest (part 2)  refused to complete, and doesn't that also go from the router (could be wrong here)? Just FYI, all tests (and Skype) are carried out from a PC which is wired via ethernet cable to the router. scratches head edit: forgot to mention, don't think my router (Netgear DG834PN) has QoS. ... View more

AndyH - I don't quite understand it myself.  TBB graph looks OK but you can see from the pingtest that I was having problems.  Skype was awful and I was getting a fair amount of lag. ... View more

stuttering audio.  Banner appeared at the bottom of the screen advising to switch off video due to poor connection.  ... View more

...and finally, when I try to run the BT speedtest I get this: "The Performance Tester is currently unable to run a speed test for your broadband connection. Please try again shortly, however if this problem persists, raise the issue with your service provider." I can bring up web pages, by the way.  Any ideas what's going on?  TBB attached which if I'm honest doesn't look too bad, so at a loss to explain why the other results are so shocking ??? ... View more

...and the tracert test to bbc.co.uk.  The symmetry is rather spoiled by line twelve but otherwise the best you can say about it is that it's very consistent :( ... View more

have to be honest I'm not loving pcl-ag07.  Just had a very troubled Skype conversation and pingtest showed me why: ... View more

OK, thanks for the lightning reply Kelly :) ... View more

Hmm, not sure pcl has improved that much... ... View more

OK.  I'm happy while the speed is good!  I'll leave it on this gateway as long as I can ... View more

On the plus side, my speed's pretty good.  Close to my maximum possible.  Don't know why I'm getting the timeouts, though. ... View more

and again just now: ... View more

@Kelly: seems to be OK now.  TBH the only thing I tested was the gateway checker while I was constantly re-connecting to find a pcl one.  It was just this last connection where the page timed out and wouldn't let me check, even after loading a new page and waiting several minutes.  It seems to be working at the moment so I'll leave as is and monitor the connection.  Pingtest looks good so far: edit: when trying to post this message originally I got a message saying I couldn't post on this board :-\ ... View more

@AndyH: no, I don't have DMZ set up, just port forwarding and static IP's for various devices.  It appears I'm on pcl-ag07 now, too ;) edit: don't know whether it makes a difference but I'm on good old 20CN ADSL (not +!). ... View more

@Kelly.  I'm sending you a PN with my current IP address.  I've just recycled several times to try and get a pcl gateway and this current one doesn't allow me to check as the gateway checker just times out.  Pcl by any chance ;D gateway begins 31.185.*** edit: just done a ping test and that came out alright, so don't know why the gateway checker refused to work for a few minutes.  Just checked now and sure enough I'm on pcl-ag07.  Are you sure it's improved? :) ... View more

@Kelly.: OK, I'll re-connect now until I get a pcl gateway.  Fingers crossed! ... View more

On a related note, I'm still getting a very variable service.  I experimented this week by not attempting to seek out a ptn gateway but just going with the flow.  When I was on ptn I went for a week before dropping the connection manually in order to move some wiring.  I'm now on my second gateway in three days through the connection dropping and spikes going through the roof.  Still leads me to conclude that the only remotely reliable gateway for me is Telehouse North, for some reason.  Any ideas why? ... View more