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Does anybody recognise this BT master socket?

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VileReynard
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Re: Does anybody recognise this BT master socket?

It's quite old - I took part in the trial run of FTTC. Smiley

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Jaggies
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Re: Does anybody recognise this BT master socket?

@ejs
You're right - I was somehow confusing the first post with ADSL rather than VDSL.
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VileReynard
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Re: Does anybody recognise this BT master socket?

The BT engineer arrived today as promised and he spent about an hour checking copper connections & FTTC speeds. Fixed a connector in the downlead and installed a Mk 4 socket that looks similar (but slightly different) to this:-

BT Mk 4BT Mk 4

Turns out my FTTC only runs at 30Mb/sec due to a cabinet fault - which a second engineer will have to fix.

He said that I only lose about 2Mb/sec due to being 150m from the cabinet - but that sounds too good to be true.

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VileReynard
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Re: Does anybody recognise this BT master socket?

I noticed a couple of Openreach vans camped out next to my green box, all weekend.

Whilst, I don't believe this was solely for me:-

My download speeds used to be about 65 Mbits/sec and has recently been about 25Mbits/sec

It's recently achieved about 78Mbits/sec (reproducibly), so I downloaded a 100GByte file from a ftp site and everything seems fine.

Since I'm about 160m from the green box, 78MBits/sec seems rather good.

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