Peter Crosland wrote:
"Vortex4" wrote in message
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It frustrates me that my next door neighbour gets 5Mbps + ADSL downloads
via a "talktalk" connection; when I get only ~3Mbps with a dedicated BT
Business Broadband connection coming from the same exchange and telegraph
pole.

An obvious difference is that neighbours master socket and router are
about 2 metres from the point where the cable enters the house; and in my
case the internal wiring takes a convoluted route of about 20 metres,
crossing and running alongside mains cables....with prehistoric telephone
wire

I can easily replace this cable segment with a new cable directly from
BT's choccy block where the wire enters the house to my master
socket....that almost completely avoids mains wiring and other sources of
interference.

My question: I want to use the best grade of wire available to do this.
Can anybody recommend what would be best? Will screened twisted pair
instrumentation cable, or CAT 6 be any better than ordinary telephone wire
for this purpose?

All opinoins will be gratefully received.

Remember that you are not allowed to do this yourself and BT can charge you
for putting right any problems you cause.

OTOH unless you have a right jobsworth BT engineer and there is a
specific problem, this is never an enforced thing.

I completely relocated the feed from my own house, to a temporary site
mobile home, then back to the new house without BT whatsover, and
extended it with CAT 5 to a master socket in this home ofice.

When I had an issue with the line some years later, the BT man came in,
and his only comment was 'I'll replace that junction box in the loft
with one of ours to 'regularise 'your installation'