In my current flat, I cannot maintain a stable connection for more than 5 minutes. The house is just down the road, same builders etc so on the assumption that the wiring will be as bad, the master socket is a must.

I have an ADSL faceplate. Agreed that will improve things but doesnt move the master socket to the room I want it in.

Thanks for the heads up.

I really want the best and am wondering if there are any other makes that would be better.

Definately, and get a good ADSL filtered face-plate too (something like the XTE-2005 from ADSL Nation).

Certainly bad extension wiring can be a problem, but it far more frequently isn't, especially if you disconnect the ring wire. Have you actually tried it? If not then you could easily end up going for a much more complex (and expensive) solution for no benefit.

Judging by the experience I had in this place I can pretty much guarantee that the new place will be the same.

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An NTE shift (where the Network termination point is moved) is only possible when you have more than one line) they cannot re-jig your internal wiring.

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Incorrect. We had our NTE shifted when we only had one line.

no point in spending on anything faster than 8M to connect to a BT broadband connection.

I fully agree and the most I will get at the new place is 3meg if not much lower, but this will also serve as a dual purpose for the high def streaming to my media pc.

Wireless always packed up, even 108meg.

Sorry, vague post. You can have an NTE shift, but you can't move the master socket 'into' an existing extension wired box. BT would have to come out and put a new NTE socket in the bedroom and deactivate the old one. Charge is about 120 I believe.