Hi all
Following on from my previous thread re: Higher Speed Broadband with FTTC, I am trying to establish what sort of loss of signal I am likely to get over my in-house "extension" cable.
The reason I have extension in quotes is because, although it is an extension of the supplied incoming phone line, it is before the face plate splitter and router/phone distribution panel bit.
Q1: what is the construction of the incoming phone line supplied by KC likely to be? Is this twisted pair or simply 4 core telephone cable? If it makes a difference, the house is early 70s with an underground connection (supplied by Kingston Communications) right into the hallway master box.
Q2: if I use my existing installed telephone cable between the master box and the loft, what additional losses would be incurred on the signal before it made it to the new splitter/router (as compared to installing the splitter at the current master box hall location and connecting the router there)? I have 2 cables between the hallway master box and the loft, one 4 core and one 8 core telephone cable. The 4 core is currently in use with the 8 core as spare - both follow the same route and are approx 15m long.
Q3: would there be any advantage in doubling or trebling up on cores used between the current master box location and the loft splitter to reduce signal loss?
Although our BB service is rather poor (around 4Mb average) I believe this is down to our distance from the exchange on an all copper supply ATM, rather than restrictions due to internal wiring.
thanks
Phil