Hi,
UK user here. We recently got BT Infinity at our property together with the new (at the time of posting) BT Smart Hub. Just the other day I installed the new NTE 5C master socket to replace the 5A socket (first time ever doing that kind of thing, was actually quite easy), plus I put the corresponding VDSL filtered faceplate over the top, and it improved our broadband speed quite a bit. Before I did this we were only getting about 2.7Mbps at best until the connection dropped and lowered the speed, but now we so far have a stable 7.1Mbps (we live in the countryside so speed is at a premium here :smile
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I noticed from a couple of videos I watched (like the one below) that the data socket on the faceplate not only accepts an RJ11 connection, but also accommodates an RJ45 plug. After a bit more research I noticed you can buy cables which have an RJ11 plug on one end and an RJ45 on the other.
I currently have just a double-ended RJ11 cable for our Smart Hub to provide our fibre. My question is whether it's actually worth it to buy one of these RJ11-to-RJ45 cables and use that instead, with the RJ11 end going to the Hub and the other end going into the wall? Or would this not really make any difference to speed? Or is this not how it works?
UK user here. We recently got BT Infinity at our property together with the new (at the time of posting) BT Smart Hub. Just the other day I installed the new NTE 5C master socket to replace the 5A socket (first time ever doing that kind of thing, was actually quite easy), plus I put the corresponding VDSL filtered faceplate over the top, and it improved our broadband speed quite a bit. Before I did this we were only getting about 2.7Mbps at best until the connection dropped and lowered the speed, but now we so far have a stable 7.1Mbps (we live in the countryside so speed is at a premium here :smile
.I noticed from a couple of videos I watched (like the one below) that the data socket on the faceplate not only accepts an RJ11 connection, but also accommodates an RJ45 plug. After a bit more research I noticed you can buy cables which have an RJ11 plug on one end and an RJ45 on the other.
I currently have just a double-ended RJ11 cable for our Smart Hub to provide our fibre. My question is whether it's actually worth it to buy one of these RJ11-to-RJ45 cables and use that instead, with the RJ11 end going to the Hub and the other end going into the wall? Or would this not really make any difference to speed? Or is this not how it works?
