Phone sockets around the house

[BenWall]

Strange issue, I moved my orange BB router behind the TV last night, in the hope that I could connect it to my xbox via cable. The router used to be behind my computer (which is the other side of the room).

I played xbox live last night and it was really laggy, so did a bandwidth speed test and it's running at 1.3megs, compared to the solid 8 meg from the other phone socket, so I've now moved it back again and using a massive enet cable.

I was hoping to avoid having to buy the wireless adapter for the xbox.

Anyone any advice on why this is?? Thought it's a little strange having different speeds from different sockets.

Thanks.

 

[Tom]

Shitty bell wire.

ALWAYS connect your modem/router to the MASTER socket.
I have a filtered masterplate on mine (£12) which makes things easier.

Its sometimes called an iPlate.

 

[Skinny]

Yup as above. I live in a Victorian house and had problems with this till i had the house gutted and re wired etc. Solved the problem. Its just shitty wiring, as said, use the master socket.

 

[BenWall]

is there a way to distinguish which is the master socket??

It is a very old mill made into apartments so could account for the crap wiring.

 

[Tom]

 

[Griff]

is there a way to distinguish which is the master socket??

It is a very old mill made into apartments so could account for the crap wiring.

It will have a BT logo on it and a horizontal grove about a third of the way down.

 

[Tom]

Haha, i win.

 

[Da]

The master socket will generally have BT on it and be closest to the point of entry for the line.

If you really can't tell take the fronts off and have a look.

 

[BenWall]

Haha, i win.

Ar, but I found the other 2 more useful.