BT attended today without Talktalk telling me they would. Lucky today was a random day off for me!

The engineer was awesome! Very chatty, very helpful and did a good job.

He ripped out all the old wiring and put in a nice new master socket for me. He even put it behind the TV by the router saving me loads of wires and hopefully improving my speed with a shorter internal distance.

Quite a bit of work done in and out but he said the connection was good.

ADSL speeds seem quite quite and more importantly the latency seems to be decent too.

And it was all free.

Happy customer

That's great in a way, but dodgy in a way.

As long as the connection does everything you will want in the future, nothing to worry about. However it's possible that the closeness to the TV could be a nuisance due to electromagnetic noise from it.

The important thing for now and for a while is that it all got done trouble-free. Enjoy.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

As long as the connection does everything you will want in the future, nothing to worry about. However it's possible that the closeness to the TV could be a nuisance due to electromagnetic noise from it.

Sure, old CRT ones gave off a lot of noise due to EHT transformer etc. But modern LCD TVs are fairly 'quiet'.

A few years ago there were many instances of plasma TVs causing trouble - even those belonging to neighbours. Then many TVs these days have other electronic gear stacked under or next to them, possibly with cheapo power equipment.

I'm not intending to make the OP worry. Just warning that if he upgrades in the future to FTTC at current or much higher speeds, with 4G or whatever TV, he may need to reconsider the layout .

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

A few years ago there were many instances of plasma TVs causing trouble - even those belonging to neighbours. Then many TVs these days have other electronic gear stacked under or next to them, possibly with cheapo power equipment.

I'm not intending to make the OP worry. Just warning that if he upgrades in the future to FTTC at current or much higher speeds, with 4G or whatever TV, he may need to reconsider the layout .

Most devices these days use switch mode power supplies. They typically operate at frequencies above 50KHz so yes they can generate some noise but decent ones are shielded. My Dell T7400 is within less than a metre of the hub, doesn't seem to be a problem. I would be more worried about decent wiring, which the OP seems to have got fixed.