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):
I 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?
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