In reply to a post by mlmclaren:

OK and how many people have got a selection of cables available to do such a thing?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/

And am sure lots of people have their ADSL microfilters still which are perfectly adequate plug converters for testing with

OR are the majority of people binning all their old kit as soon as they switch to FTTC?

The BT checker should also tell you if you have jumpers in place. You may well have other wiring issues too. Also it gives the line rate which is not the same as the actual upload/download speeds.

For example the BT checker tells me:

FTTC Range B (Impacted) 59.5 35 19.9 9.6

I actually get about 49-50 up / 7-8 down - so the download is within spec but the upload slower.

It's worth rebooting the router as it seems to vary quite a bit depending on what IP address you're assigned. I've had as low as 12Mb/s down on one IP adddress, lower than what I had with ADSL! Latency time also varies widely from 13ms to nearly 30ms.

I'd give BT a call - I had problems in the past with ADSL and they sent 3 guys round in a couple of days who rewired the socket and cable to the hub, fixing the issues I had at the time.

I guess it depends on if you have an AIO which will do PPPoA/E if so then you wouldn't bin anything