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Paul Hirst wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 09:02 +0100, Simon Waters wrote: > > >> I suspect that if you have extensions from the main socket you might >> gain something, although these days probably easier to simply get a set >> of cordless phones and lose all the phone extension cabling entirely. >> >> > I more than doubled by broadband speed by doing this. I suspect the > extension cable running down to my shed was causing a lot of > interference. Maybe because it runs in a duct right next to a mains > cable. > You'd have to have a lot of VERY noisy stuff on your mains - lots of self-opening sixties fridges and old light dimmer switches. The extension cable itself may be at fault (they're for phones not BB) - can you put the router near your main phone socket and replace the extension with Cat6 ... or wireless? Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html