Fault on Phone and slow broadband

Question

Hi over the past few days and numerous tests and me phoning BT It was discovered that It looks like there is a fault on the front plate of the main socket that comes into my home. THis is a box that was installed by BT a few years ago. I was told that if I wanted to have an engineer to fix this there would be a charge of £130.00 I am not happy at all as surely this main socket is owned by and the responsibility of BT and not down to me to repair. 

Answer 1

Hi there, several years ago BT replaced the the main socket and installed an ADSL V1.0 made a hole through the wall  in the dining room and installed a Hard wired Extention on the inside of the ouside wall of the property, as I was having peoblems with my broadband speeds using an domestic telephone extention lead. 
Had my problems just been with the slow broadband I would have suspected that the extention socket was causing my slow broadband problems. However My phone has been acting irraticly too, people cannot reach us the phone rings once and cuts off. Also the line is intermittently noisy and people have been reiving the message that there is a fault at ******** the name of my cottage..
I have unscrewed the faceplate and put a filter into the test socket and so far the phone seems ok although my broadband is still very slow. AS the phone fault is intermittent it is hard to be sure that the frontplate is definatly the cause of the problems but it seems like that so far.
I do not have sky or anything else apart from Broadband and my telephone, I have been at this since Thursday and to be honest with you I thought my problems were over when I realised the phone was not woking for sure and assumed the BT engineers would fix it.
I forgot to say there are no other extentions going into that box apart from the main phone and the extention on the wall installed by BT which I have ruled out because the phone is effected as well as the broadband.