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Just discovered that the exchange is outside EE's Network Area, where they throttle heavily. So they don't need to play around with connection parameters.

Oh crickey: throughput and possible home wiring issues!

So who could I recommend to him to move to if price is a factor? Nothing is available at the exchange.
I was thinking Plusnet?

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So who could I recommend to him to move to if price is a factor? Nothing is available at the exchange.
I was thinking Plusnet?

If "nothing is available at the exchange" that possibly means that it is Market 1 in which case Plusnet wouldn't really represent any great advantage over other ISP's price wise. If the exchange is Market 2 or 3 then certainly Plusnet would be a good choice since it would be in a "low cost area".

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In reply to a post by michty_me:

So who could I recommend to him to move to if price is a factor? Nothing is available at the exchange.
I was thinking Plusnet?

If "nothing is available at the exchange" that possibly means that it is Market 1 in which case Plusnet wouldn't really represent any great advantage over other ISP's price wise. If the exchange is Market 2 or 3 then certainly Plusnet would be a good choice since it would be in a "low cost area".

I just checked and it appears it is a Market 1 exchange.

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In reply to a post by 4M2:

Yes I agree that 0.3 Meg figure does seem exceptionally low.

Pretty sure that's cuz EE had him on a low(est) banded profile, as is their wont, and have now released it.

We pulled in new Cat5e cable to the main box and to the extension and hooked up as per correct way. When we pulled out both original wires, They had been nibbled by something. about half a foot on both sets of runs.

So now all wiring is sorted (hopefully), His speeds are still low, Which I guess is down to orange?
On a plus, He can now stream videos and access webpages at normal speed again thankfully. It's a step in the right direction anyway.

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When we pulled out both original wires, They had been nibbled by something. about half a foot on both sets of runs.

That was quite a successful job then, hopefully the "nibblers" wont have CAT5 on their menu

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In reply to a post by michty_me:

When we pulled out both original wires, They had been nibbled by something. about half a foot on both sets of runs.

That was quite a successful job then, hopefully the "nibblers" wont have CAT5 on their menu

Yeah we were please. His missus said they were moving.