I was always able to get them from mine I thought ?

Maybe not though, my memory ain't what it were. If all else fails go get your one of these from the van,
you can definitely get the stats from that.

Yes, some of it was copper coated steel. That provided the conductivity and strain capability for the drop wire. I had about 10m of it here which was replaced when I was on ADSL - it gave a noticeable improvement, possibly some down to re-routing and some to improved noise rejection.

Ok cable looks to be 2 core for internal wiring and runs close to mains in places. The drop wire crosses the main electric into my hoyse in one place also . here are some photos .. I could get the drop wire to come straight into lounge and then run cat5e 7m to modem if i thought it would help.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ls1n1gad6p8t9hm/20160227_1...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/876gl1ncz6s0w8v/20160227_1...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k2rtsug2a5w3hvo/20160227_1...

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

I was always able to get them from mine I thought ?

Not according to BT Care although perhaps a later firmware update changed things.

lol... I've got more routers/modem routers than I can shake a stick at and I don't use BTr at all.

That looks like the old solid core stuff but if it's BTO's side of the NTE, you're not allowed to touch it. You can do anything you like as long as it's on your side of the NTE.

The black is dropwire 10 and is ok. The grey is very old dropwire 8 and is not good for BB as its untwisted.

That certainly looks like older dropwire that was then run into the house. The proximity of the power cables certainly could be a source of noise, if there is anything on that ring that could cause it

IF you had BT in to relocate the master to just where it comes into the house, then install the modem close by you could alleviate the possible noise or split it to voice and xDSL at that point, then run both up to the house in Cat5e/6 you could reduce the noise pickup. However, as has been said, if it works, why interfere too much.

If it was me, I would have the master relocated and accept teh cost of doing so, knowing I had removed sme potential issues.

Look back - I identified it yesterday.

So I was thinking get black drop wire into house directly to new master socket with the VDSL faceplate and then run 6m of cat5e to the modem.

That would work but remember the moving of the master is a BT task.

From the faceplate run one pair in the Cat5e for voice and a second pair for the VDSL signal.

It will tidy everything up and probably remove some noise - no guarantee though.