Just recently moved our computers (and router and modem) to our new basement office - and our internet is much, much slower!
We're paying for either 12 or 20 Mbps down (can't remember), 896k up.
Speedtest.net shows pretty close to that on one phone jack in the house, a bit slower on two others, and really bad when connected in the new office - 3-4M down, ~300k up.
All the existing jacks are ??? with regards to wiring - 1970s home. For the jack in the office, I took the line that was running to the security system (again, ???), and extended it using my best (ie. not very good) western union splice + solder.
Here's the stats I get from my modem (Zoom 5615):
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lh5.googleusercontent.co ··· adsl.PNGI don't know enough to interpret the SNR or attenuation numbers, whether they're good or bad. I do know that one of the other phone jacks showed a number closer to the paid speed on the modem, but didn't note the other numbers.
I'm thinking pretty seriously about just doing a new home run on the outside of the house. We don't do a landline phone, so it seems like I can just unhook all the old wiring, and run a new wire, soup.
Anything I'm missing? Easier solutions?
Our demarc is currently an old carbon block - we actually couldn't find it when we first had service set up. I'll definitely wire a jack directly to it and test before I run any wire, that's for sure. Thinking I'll get this wired up and
then see if I can get CenturyLink to install a NID - any reason I shouldn't go that route?