You'll have to forgive me if I don't use the correct terminology, but hopefully you'll get my drift.We've recently moved into an apartment complex in Chch Central. Prior to moving I checked to see if fibre was available, which my provider at the time (Vodafone) said it was. Well, to cut a long story short, it wasn't. And, we'd already signed the papers. The bodycorp is reviewing fibre installation in July, apparently having to deal with fire compliance issues.So, after a nightmarish 2 weeks trying to determine what was available, I got in touch with Spark, who did a prequalification and determined ADSL2+ was the best option. They informed me the predicted speeds were between 15-21mbps.The apartment has 5 ADSL jack points. After the Spark modem arrived, I naturally tried the one in the lounge to no avail. Luckily, the last jack point I tried (in the bedroom) worked. However, we haven't even cracked 8mbps. It's manageable; we can have two devices streaming Netflix just fine. Preferably, I'd like the modem in the lounge. I spoke with Spark who said we'll probably need a technician to access the cabinet room and change the port to match the jack point. That's fine. My question is: is there a possibility that changing the port to a new jack point could improve the speed to something within the range Spark told me? Or, is it going to be the case that if I'm getting ~8mbps on one jack point, it's going to be the same on all the others if I get the port changed?Apologies if this is the wrong forum.
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