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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 ...
If you trace the wires from the Line terminals it should be the cable coming into the house. Looks like the Modem terminals are used for your wall jacks since I don't see any other connections. Somewhere along that Modem wire is probably a splitter to get it to each of your wall jacks since the punch panel isn't being used.
The wall jacks really should be hooked up to the Phone terminal and you modem should be hooked up to the Modem terminal or the corresponding RJ11 jack on the other side. Can you run your phone extension cable from the modem to that jack and test? That will bypass alll the house wiring.
It just occured to me that the wall jacks may be connected in series which is why there is only 1 pair of wires there. That would be bad.
