Recent content by zvictor1

Well, OpenReach guy came today, looked at the outside of the house and the pole across the lane, said something non-committal, came in and after a few tests took out the 'loose' socket replacing it with a new OpenReach master socket. Ran some more tests, declared the download and upload speeds...

Ty plugwash & foxhole for the replies. I *think* the phone cable is overhead - there is a bracket on the side of the house which has two cables coming from a pole on the other side of the lane. One is a big thick mains cable that is run round the house to the consumer unit in the attached...

@plugwash that's my suspicion too. I am assuming there's a junction box feeding the two 'extension' sockets but since both sockets are connected with blue/orange to 2/5 it looks like they are wired in parallel in a 'star' setup. I'm guessing that is what causes the weird log messages. There's...

Good day all, We moved into a bungalow built in the '70s several years ago, and have gone through several different ISPs with varying levels of satisfaction - performance has often felt a bit laggy. Recently, after moving to Zen, I got in touch with their tech support 'cos the modem was...