In reply to a post by atsw:

It's a brand new BT faceplate, the type that stacks on top of your existing faceplate and has a cutout in the bottom so that the engineer does not need to disconnect any extensions you have on the socket.

The faceplate is a filter which splits the phone signal as it comes into your house into VDSL2 and regular phone. It presents you with an RJ11 socket at the top for VDSL2 and a standard BT 431A phone connector at the bottom.

This is not mine, but it looks like this

Thanks for the info - it's great that your speeds are not degraded even though you are using a "30m run of CW1308 Telephone Cable (4 pairs) which takes filtered voice and straight vDSL from the Master to the location of the telephone and data ports where the Phone, BT Modem, my Fibre Router and Telephone socket are located."

While not wishing to show off, this is the very first speedtest I did after the FTTC was installed back in May. I still get the same speeds today.

FTTC Speedtest - May 2013

In reply to a post by atsw:

While not wishing to show off, this is the very first speedtest I did after the FTTC was installed back in May. I still get the same speeds today.

FTTC Speedtest - May 2013

Thanks for the further info, it just proves that you your setup works really well. Using the same cable for vdsl and filtered voice from an interstitial filtered faceplate over a length of up to 30 metres certainly seems to have no detrimental effect on your throughput speeds and latency - this would certainly be a valid setup for anyone else to use

The wiring was originally put in for ADSL. I'm a long way from the exchange, so high-quality telephone cables were used in the house to avoid any degradation caused by losses in the house wiring. On the switch to FTTC, I was worried that the cable run would not support VDSL, but the prospect of re-wiring from the Master to the location of the PC/Modem/Router was a complete non-starter (the cable goes up a floor, around the perimeter of three rooms, and back down to the ground floor before terminating at the PC). So, it was use the existing cable or nothing!

The Installation Engineer looked at my setup, inspected the telephone cable I used for ADSL and said he didn't think I'd have any problem in simply using the wires that were there for the new VDSL feed. All he had to do was install the new faceplate on the master socket, connect the modem to the data point by the PC, test the connection and that was it. Away he went with both of us very happy (him because the job was quick and simple and me because the existing wires were capable of supporting VDSL).

Andrew

He probably had to connect one twisted pair from your existing cable to the IDC block terminals on the back of the NTE5 interstitial filtered faceplate for the vdsl feed to the modem. The other twisted pair would be connected to the original NTE5 bottom plate for the filtered voice. That's if you are actually using an interstitial plate?

Non-interstitial filtered faceplates would use the A&B terminals for vdsl and the terminals 2 and 5 for filtered voice...