[chrisp_4]

Hi All,

I have just finished installing structured cabling at my house and have the following setup with the help of advise from another forum.

BT Master socket in the downstairs hall with a filtered faceplate fitted, i have run a single cat5e to the master socket and connected the two orange wires to the back of the faceplate (A & B) and the two blue wires to the phone connection (2 and 5)

The cat5e runs to the patch panel in the loft (approx 10-15 metres) where the orange pair are connected to port 1 and the blue pair are connected to port 2 and subsequently daisy chained to port 3 and 4 to provide further telephone connections.

I then have port 1 from the patch panel (now the ADSL line) patched down to the office (approx 8 metres) where i have the router plugged in via a RJ45 wall outlet.

Everything works perfectly fine i have successfully tested the phone connections in all ports around the house using a mod tap adaptor and the internet also works however i am only getting a 5Mb download speed whereas when i plug it directly into the master socket downstairs i get 20Mb download speed (no fibre)

The only caveat being that as a temporary measure i am using an RJ11 to BT Male adaptor into a Mod tap (Slave) and then into the RJ45 socket upstairs because i didnt have an RJ11 to RJ45 cable (i have one on order)

Would this simply be causing the slow connection speed? the mod tap is a slave so i assumed it was just a straight through converter or is there likely to be something else causing the issue?

Thanks
Chris