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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 ...
Correct me if I'm wrong but I didn't read anywhere in this thread answers to the following questions:
- What else is connected to the phone lines in your house? Nighhawk asked several times but I don't see an answer. Not the network, the phone lines. Answering machines, alarm systems, caller ID boxes, fax machines, phone extention cables, splitters, etc. I would unplug everything and do a test.
- Did you do any tests by moving your modem to locations to see if the suspected wiring problem can be isolated?
- Is there a phone jack in the laudry room? That's the first place I'd try.
- Phone jacks in other rooms if there isn't one in the laundry room
- What does the telephone wiring look like in the laudry room?
- Do you see a junction box on the wall where the phone lines are split out?
- Do you see any filters or splitters?
- Post a picture if you don't understand the wiring.
1. Already answered. No other devices (apart from the ATA) connected to the PC or to the phone line. No fax machine, no caller ID box, no other phones, no alarm system, no splitters (that I'm aware of). My upstairs neighbor doesn't use a landline phone and has no computer.
2. There is no phone jack in the laundry room. There is one in the bedroom (beside the laundry room) and one in the kitchen. Haven't tried to connect the modem to either of these jacks.
3. Laundry/boiler room showing where all the lines come in:
Close up:
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.
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.
Phil_Harmonic Your best bet is get some one that knows tel wiring that is a mess. The tel wire from the 80s is still used today. I see 2 tell wires stapled with a 90 degree bend in it could be the problem. Only one tel wire will go to the demarcation box should be nothing wrong with it. Also one loose tel wire going somewhere? There are 4 wires in tel cable you only need 2 but you can bond them together to have more copper wire to feed outlet.
In the second picture there a spot in between the two breaker panels with a punch panel and junction box. Can you post a close up of that?
