*noel
December 11th, 2003, 12:42 PM
#4359: could phone line routing cause poor connection speeds? Author: noel, Location: Arkansas Posted: 05 Feb 2003 03:18 am
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I have done several things here lately, new electrical wiring and new phone wiring. During the last couple of months, my connection speeds on my modem have been sometime in the 40k range, sometimes 20 and 30kbps. a day or so ago, I put xp on my pc and couldn't connect above 24kbps, once I connected at 9.6. I did some checking and found that my modem didn't have an xp driver, so I bought a new modem (USR performance pro hardware modem). I got 26.6 out of it. I disconnected all the old phone wiring, and still no joy. The old wiring was under the house. My new phone wiring is in the attic and is near all the new electrical wiring. Could my phone line be picking up something from the new wiring to cause my slow connects? The phone itself sounds ok.
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#4364: Author: Ron, Location: New York Posted: 05 Feb 2003 09:58 am
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The suggestion is when running your telephone cable parralel with power wiring, it should be at least 2" away (the more the better). If you need to cross telephone cable with power, it should be at right angles to reduce signal noise coupling.
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#4369: Author: dkerr, Location: Ottawa Ontario Canada Posted: 05 Feb 2003 12:41 pm
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Several factors can come into play that will affect your dial up connection speeds. When a computer tries to connect , it tries to conenct at the highest posssible speed and goes thru a handshanking routine, if that is not successfull , it keeeps trying dropping the speed until , the handshaking routine is successfull.
Any noise on the phone line, even that noise that is not easily heard on normal voice telephone use.
Some things that can affect connection speeds can be both inside your home as well as outside your home, some of those are...
1. Quality of the phone line itself/inside or outside.
2. noise on the phone line, even noise that cannot be easily heard on voice conversations.
3. poor quality extension phone cords.
4. poor phone line network connection/ground at the phone company side of entry into the home, including moisture /condensation at that point.
5. radio interferance and/or magnetic/electrical inductance pickup possibly from being too close to electrical wires.
6. The computer itself , being undersourced or with improper system settings.
So what can you do about it ?
1. Contact your internet provider, hopefully there technical support people (I know from experience that some technical support people are not as technically knowledgeable as you think, depends on who you talk to) , hopefully they can double check your system settings to ensure that you do have optimum settings and they could have other sugestions.
2. Make certain that they phone line is connected to the line jack of the modem and not the phone jack of the modem.
3. inspect where your new phone line is routed, is it near electrical cables ?
4. ferite beads or ferite coils may be able to elliminate and interferance picked up on the line, check the new section of our at the link bellow...
http://www.homewiringandmore.com/interference/index.html
start with this and we will go from there.
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I have done several things here lately, new electrical wiring and new phone wiring. During the last couple of months, my connection speeds on my modem have been sometime in the 40k range, sometimes 20 and 30kbps. a day or so ago, I put xp on my pc and couldn't connect above 24kbps, once I connected at 9.6. I did some checking and found that my modem didn't have an xp driver, so I bought a new modem (USR performance pro hardware modem). I got 26.6 out of it. I disconnected all the old phone wiring, and still no joy. The old wiring was under the house. My new phone wiring is in the attic and is near all the new electrical wiring. Could my phone line be picking up something from the new wiring to cause my slow connects? The phone itself sounds ok.
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#4364: Author: Ron, Location: New York Posted: 05 Feb 2003 09:58 am
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The suggestion is when running your telephone cable parralel with power wiring, it should be at least 2" away (the more the better). If you need to cross telephone cable with power, it should be at right angles to reduce signal noise coupling.
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#4369: Author: dkerr, Location: Ottawa Ontario Canada Posted: 05 Feb 2003 12:41 pm
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Several factors can come into play that will affect your dial up connection speeds. When a computer tries to connect , it tries to conenct at the highest posssible speed and goes thru a handshanking routine, if that is not successfull , it keeeps trying dropping the speed until , the handshaking routine is successfull.
Any noise on the phone line, even that noise that is not easily heard on normal voice telephone use.
Some things that can affect connection speeds can be both inside your home as well as outside your home, some of those are...
1. Quality of the phone line itself/inside or outside.
2. noise on the phone line, even noise that cannot be easily heard on voice conversations.
3. poor quality extension phone cords.
4. poor phone line network connection/ground at the phone company side of entry into the home, including moisture /condensation at that point.
5. radio interferance and/or magnetic/electrical inductance pickup possibly from being too close to electrical wires.
6. The computer itself , being undersourced or with improper system settings.
So what can you do about it ?
1. Contact your internet provider, hopefully there technical support people (I know from experience that some technical support people are not as technically knowledgeable as you think, depends on who you talk to) , hopefully they can double check your system settings to ensure that you do have optimum settings and they could have other sugestions.
2. Make certain that they phone line is connected to the line jack of the modem and not the phone jack of the modem.
3. inspect where your new phone line is routed, is it near electrical cables ?
4. ferite beads or ferite coils may be able to elliminate and interferance picked up on the line, check the new section of our at the link bellow...
http://www.homewiringandmore.com/interference/index.html
start with this and we will go from there.