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Replacing old home telephone wire?
I have VDSL internet on a 50 Mbps plan and I'm only getting 38 Mbps. After checking with my ISP and doing all the testing of my line and modem over the course of a week, I'm pretty convinced my slow ...
Do I check the other phone jacks to see if I'm getting any signal on my modem? Or am I checking for speed? If the latter, it means dismantling everything and moving my entire PC setup over to the jack. That's going to be a huge PITA.
I will post more photos soon.
You said you used a 30 foot phone cable from the wall to your modem. Assuming there isn't anything wrong with that cable can you connect the modem to another jack and then a longer Ethernet cable to connect from the modem to your competer? That way you don't have to move the computer. Or use a laptop to do the test if one is available to you.
