You can excuse the lack of a quiet line test I guess, but it's the other more important stuff I'd worry about doing without.

In 'odd moments' theres tea to be drunk, books to be read, telly to what, can't say I ever think, 'I've nowt to do for a mo, I'll just go do a quick quiet line test'

Less than 1 minute a week?

With a new estate of 400 houses going up beyond me, thus implying the possibility of physical interference with the existing copper cabling; compounded with an FTTC cabinet going in, almost right outside my house?

The FTTC cabinet being directly on the route of the main 50 year old copper cables; and a new 100-pair link about 50 yards long to the PCP, 45 yards being through the same original ducting?

As the actual fibre has not yet been blown in, we haven't had the final linking in the PCP of individual FTTC connections.

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Regarding dialling "0" in place of a proper QLT, does anyone know whether it is a good substitution?

Thanks R0NSKI, that was very helpful.

Sorry I haven't replied in few days been a bit busy.

I have found a Huawei HG612 on eBay, is there a revision I should go for? As when I read up about the modem, there was a few versions. Does this modem look good?: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BT-Openreach-EchoLife-HG61...

I am also going to get the MK2 faceplate same as adslmax has and the Tandy DSL cable.

That is the 3B version which I believe is the latest version, it also has the later white power supply.

See the link below for some more info.

http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=11721.0

Ok, so I think that is right one to go for. I read that it has a Broadcom chipset, does that mean I can snr tweak fibre optic or does that not work?

That doesn't work with FTTC.

And is specifically banned by Openreach .

I did try it before I knew that. The results were almost unpredictable, except that they were nearly always worse than not interfering.

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 18-Jan-14 21:26:16)

In reply to a post by Computerman142:

Thanks R0NSKI, that was very helpful.

Sorry I haven't replied in few days been a bit busy.

I have found a Huawei HG612 on eBay, is there a revision I should go for? As when I read up about the modem, there was a few versions. Does this modem look good?: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BT-Openreach-EchoLife-HG61...

I am also going to get the MK2 faceplate same as adslmax has and the Tandy DSL cable.

Mine had arrived today new Openreach Modem B3 version HG612 (brand new box) brought it off ebay £19.99 with free P&P. However it locked, I had managed to unlocked it and set up ADSL2+ and testing out via my Netgear DGND3700v2 and it all worked out well. So, I keep that unlocked modem for FTTC coming shortly. I also disabled QoS on the openreach modem to increase upstream on FTTC.

http://s14.postimg.org/geql4se2p/20140118_223442.jpg

Edited by adslmax (Sat 18-Jan-14 22:50:09)

When I started looking for a modem on eBay I wanted it to be new but I couldn't find one.

Was the seller you bought it off, listing the product to have more than one available? if so, please could you link me to it?

If I cant get a new one I will probably buy the second hand one and unlock it if it isn't already. When I get one, there will be no point disabling QoS on the modem as my upload is capped at 1.9Mbps. I have no idea why TalkTalk decided to do that.