Just to update this thread...

I got my FTTC upgrade yesterday.
The Kelly engineer was happy to fit the latest OR faceplate, so I've got my ADSLNation one as a spare now.

I'm over 600m from the cabinet on overhead lines.
I'm getting around 30Mbps DL (about right - i was hoping for 35) with the OR ECI modem sitting in the loft plugged into the Master Socket with CAT5 to my study and around 20Mbps if I use my old RJ11 all the way to the study.

So for me my internal RJ11 from loft to ground floor seems to make quite a difference with FTTC. This had been thoroughly tested over the last 10 years with ADSL which ran identically whether in the test socket or over the long RJ11.

A bit of a pain for me as I've now got to sort out how to leave things, either putting permanent power in the loft or dropping the router into a bedroom under the Master Socket. I don't really want to leave it in the loft as it gets so hot up there in the summer - at least I've got until next year to sort something out

Just to clarify: is your speed reduced by ~10Mbps by using RJ11 from the master socket/OR faceplate in the loft to the modem in the study, yet you get full speed with both the modem and the router in the loft then ethernet RJ45 to the computer in the study?

Sorry - it doesn't read too well

The FTTC modem is in the loft plugged into the new NTE5 faceplate.
I've still got my separate router (TP-Link) in the study linked by CAT5.
This gives me around 30Mbps.


If I use the existing 'plumbed in' high quality twisted pair RJ11 running all the way to my study (keeping modem and router together in the study) then it slows up by around 10Mbps.

Thanks for the clarification

Obviously Kelly's were not concerned about potential over-heating issues with the modem located in the loft or did you mention that you would try locating the modem in the study linked to the master over rj11 (a "data extension" made up of "high quality twisted pair")?

He wasn't really bothered about anything to tell the truth!
He just left me with the modem in the study getting 20Mb DL, saying I would have to report a fault if I believed I should be getting more.

I wish it would cool down a bit it's turned into a scorcher this afternoon - I thought I would be ok 'till next year.

I've just ordered a 5m RJ11 (twisted pair etc.) so that I can move it into a bedroom below the NTE5 so it's cooler and I can keep an eye on it.

Edited by b4dger (Fri 12-Sep-14 16:53:49)

In reply to a post by b4dger:

I've just ordered a 5m RJ11 (twisted pair etc.) so that I can move it into a bedroom below the NTE5 so it's cooler and I can keep an eye on it.

Sounds like a good plan

Do you have any filtered voice extensions from the master socket in the loft? If not you could also consider using your current twisted pair cable as an unfiltered extension to the study where you could fit a xDSL and filtered phone faceplate on a socket box, that would mean not using the OR faceplate fitted to the NTE5 but wiring to the back of a blanked unfiltered faceplate on the NTE5 instead. However keeping the modem as close as possible to the NTE5 is probably best, then CAT5 to the router in the study - which I think you have planned to do - but perhaps that would unfortunately render your current �plumbed in� twisted pair redundant�