In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

(more than one engineer visiting these forums crave Jaffa Cakes),

Come now Bob, you know it's Fig Newtons that do the trick......

Cool; opportunity to show off.......
Who else has been to Newton, the town in Massachusetts from where Fig Newtons (aka Fig Rolls) get their name?

CAT5 between the existing master and the desired extension is fine. Remember the VDSL 2 signal is coming from the cabinet on copper, so a few metres of CAT5 won't make much difference. Poor stuff would.

What they do if willing is within the existing master wire the incoming line to the extension, (I don't know if they disable the "Master"), and connect another pair in the CAT5 back to make the old master an extension.

As you have CAT5, he may just say "Fine", and install the modem at the extension. The ones I seen reported where that has been done have all had filtered faceplates at the extension pre-installed.

Hmm, it ain't quite as fussy as that. I'd surely be saying that when this all goes self install, and it surely will, we will be awash with with folk finding they have lost umpteen meg over their extension wiring. As long as you pick up the incoming point, fit an SSFP there, then all will be well. I have no doubt the OP's existing set up will work as they have it. The only proof will be a test at the NTE, and one at the end of the current 'data extension'. Who knows, when this goes up to 80 meg, then it'll be even more sensitive.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

(more than one engineer visiting these forums crave Jaffa Cakes),

Come now Bob, you know it's Fig Newtons that do the trick......

Ahhh! Indeed so. I do remember now.

Just there are so many mentions of Jaffa Cakes as well., which I loath in fact.

Now fig biscuits ....droooooool!

Cool; opportunity to show off.......smile
Who else has been to Newton, the town in Massachusetts from where Fig Newtons (aka Fig Rolls) get their name?

Nope Ade, but I do have 40 meg BB for free ........ [smug icon]

In reply to a post by garywood84:

I've just seen that my exchange is due to be upgraded to FTTC by the end of September, and been reading more about what's involved in upgrading from ADSL2+.

I see it requires a new faceplate and a BT modem. Re the faceplate, I currently have an ADSL faceplate on my master socket, so that my telephone wiring and broadband are separate (and I don't use microfilters on my extensions). My current router connects to this with an RJ9 connector. Will I still need a new faceplate, or will this be sufficient? (As far as I can tell, all the new BT Infinity plate does is separate the two circuits, as my current setup does).

Re the modem/router - I currently use a Netgear DG834, which has the modem built in. Is it possible to get a modem/router combined like this one for the FTTC service, or would I be forced to have a separate modem?

When I went to Infinity a couple of months ago the BT engineer tested the ADSL Nation faceplate I already had and left that, saying it was as good (or better than) the BT one...........

Edited by Garyilka (Sun 28-Aug-11 10:44:12)

Thanks, everyone - I hope BT will agree to leave my faceplate in place - I'd rather stick with ADSL2+ than have them fiddling with it (I've had experience of BT engineers when I had a fault before I got he CAT5 cabling...)

The first hurdle, though, is going to be for the exchange AND my local cabinet to be ugpraded. The exchange RFS date is showing as 01 September 2011 in some places and 30 September in other places. Either way on that, does anyone know how/where I can find out which cabinets are due for upgrade?

CW1308 is essentially the cable used from the exchange/cabinet to the premises, only an external version of it. So yes it is suitable, however BT are using VDSL2 for the FTTC offering and will be using a wider range of frequencies when they start offering 80Mb. CAT5e cable may therefore be marginally better for the purpose, but remember you are probably only running a few meters compared to hundreds meters on BT's side so don't expect miracles.

Yes you can keep your existing faceplate and in the Case of the XTE-2005 it has been tested with VDSL2 connections a works fine. I would however make sure that you ask the BT engineer to leave the openreach filter as you may need it in the future to prove to BT that any problems you have are not caused by your not using their standard (v.basic) filter.

There are A&B terminals of the BR Openreach interstitial filter.