You beat me to it!

Idc connectors only support two wires

So this job today may need a bit more planning

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Possibly.

Distance is everything with VDSL, an extra 20 m of telephone wiring can mean a couple of Meg lost.

.. or more depending on your connection. I gained about 5Mbps just by replacing the standard flat cable that came with the modem with screened Cat5.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

So this job today may need a bit more planning

Is there going to be any changes to the steps you provided me?? I already ordered some of those gel crimps of the site you reccomended.

J

Well without knowing how the extensions are actually connected it is impossible to say,
i.e. photos of each extension socket and the master socket are needed.

In theory the extensions could be run off of the extension socket once it has placed in the location of the old socket.

To be honest, this is getting deeper into the mire and leaning more towards you should have just got a data extension installed when you had FTTC installed.

It's a good job he's an experienced installer

Here are photos of the wiring in my home http://s1308.beta.photobucket.com/user/Jamie_Danjoux...

Edited by deleted (Tue 26-Feb-13 16:44:14)

In reply to a post by simon194:

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Distance is everything with VDSL, an extra 20 m of telephone wiring can mean a couple of Meg lost.

.. or more depending on your connection. I gained about 5Mbps just by replacing the standard flat cable that came with the modem with screened Cat5.

This is often due to a reflection loss rather than a wire loss.

As a percentage of total loop length, the flat cable between the modem and the linebox is so short that signal attenuation due to losses in the wire itself is minimal.

However, the flat cable is poorly matched in terms of its impedance to the twisted pairs in the rest of the loop. That impedance mismatch causes much of the signal to reflect back to the modem transceiver/s from the junction of the two cable types. And that reflection is what impairs the broadband performance. It causes frequency-specific notches that ultimately reduce bit depth on the affected subcarriers.

That is reportedly how most bandwidth is lost to consumer wiring: as reflection losses. Compounded by star wiring topologies, which serve as reflective bridge taps, etc.. (See Walter Y Chen, Home Networking Basis)

cheers, a

Edited by deleted (Wed 27-Feb-13 00:51:30)

In reply to a post by JamieDanjoux:

Here are photos of the wiring in my home http://s1308.beta.photobucket.com/user/Jamie_Danjoux...

The above quote contains the pics

Pictures of the outside of the socket is like trying to say whether a car will pass its MOT when it is parked 100m away.

People need to see the wiring in each of the sockets and you are only showing three extensions when you say you have four, and the master has to junction boxes around it, and what looks like at least 6 bits of cable