Originally Posted by knightsy

how far do you live from your telephone exchange? distance is the only reason the line will make your connection slow unless the line is faulty (yes it can be faulty and the phone still be ok) if you are close to the exchange and getting low speed get hold of your service provider and tell them they should send an engineer to do a healthcheck, also if you have a proper master socket (the one where the bottom half will unscrew) remove this if you have hardwired extensions and test from the socket you find behind the plate, you will be surprised how many people have slow speeds due to poor or incorrect internal wiring.