Internet Throttleing

Ive got family who live in the sticks and have to put up with 60db + attenuation. i did a bit of investigating, and asked a guy on the networks team at my work, and he hinted that if you have a standard BT master socket in your home, and unused telephone extension points, every single one of those points is adding further interferance to the line, and should be isolated..

i admit the words 'hacking the bell wire off' may have been a little bit misleading

if you want to know more, 2 mins of googling found me this link which is pretty much exactly what i did, just isolates the bell wire from any extension sockets in the house, and should cut out alot of interferance.. Family and friends who ive done this for have reported an average increase from 1.5mb/s to approx 2.5 - 3mb/s just simply by removing that household wiring interferance.. its aparently rife in older properties where years of splitting and putting new sockets in etc have caused alot of interferance...
 
http://www.jarviser.co.uk/jarviser/broadbandspeed.html

of course, general house cleaning tips are to go round and tidy up all your telephone wiring, to remove any possible interferance.. not noticable in city locations, but 7 miles down the road.. i was plesently surprised :)

unfortunately, no matter how much you pay, in some cases, they cant put more speed down the line than it can handle.. in which case.. BT local loopback fiber backbone installed into the exchange, then u just sell it to all your neighbors and make money :D