Switching wires in the pair improves ADSL connections?

Not sure which message I read recently in this group, but someone suggested
changing over the wires of the pair.... What effect would this have and is
it worth trying if there are problems with the connection?

Keith

"Ian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> "Keith" <00--(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Not sure which message I read recently in this group, but someone
>> suggested
>> changing over the wires of the pair.... What effect would this have
>> and is
>> it worth trying if there are problems with the connection?
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
> Ask the person who claimed that to explain why! It will make no
> difference.
>
>
>

I have seen many articles supporting this with evidence, though I am not
going to spend hours trawling to post a link.

In a nutshell, this is only something to perform where A and B have been
transposed, and is merely restoring the physical line to its correct state.
There is a simple multimeter check to see which is the correct +/- line.

What does help line quality is disconnecting the third "ring" wire and
using master sockets on all telephone extensions instead, or better still
separating the circuits so ADSL is only fed where it is needed.

Keith wrote:

> Not sure which message I read recently in this group, but someone suggested
> changing over the wires of the pair.... What effect would this have and is
> it worth trying if there are problems with the connection?

I can't imagine it having any effect at all actually.

Graham

"Keith" <00--(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Not sure which message I read recently in this group, but someone
> suggested
> changing over the wires of the pair.... What effect would this have and
> is
> it worth trying if there are problems with the connection?
>
> Keith
>
>
Ask the person who claimed that to explain why! It will make no difference.

> I have seen many articles supporting this with evidence, though I am not
> going to spend hours trawling to post a link.

If there were many articles then surely you would not have to spend hours
trawling to post a link........

I support the other replies that are saying that switching the pair wires
will have no effect.


> What does help line quality is disconnecting the third "ring" wire and
> using master sockets on all telephone extensions instead, or better still
> separating the circuits so ADSL is only fed where it is needed.

I agree that removing the ring wire may improve line quality, but fitting
more than one master socket should not be encouraged as each master socket
contains a capacitor, and this may 'unbalance' the line.

Steve.

In message <4776868c$0$54787$(E-Mail Removed) k>, NewsNN
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>I have seen many articles supporting this with evidence, though I am not
>going to spend hours trawling to post a link.

I can see that this would only make a difference if the joints were
"dodgy" in the first place. Remaking the joints would improve things,
not the actual swapping over.
--
Devs
"Punchdown Pete the old Kroner"
Un autre 4 ans!

Devs wrote:

> NewsNN writes
>
> >I have seen many articles supporting this with evidence, though I am not
> >going to spend hours trawling to post a link.
>
> I can see that this would only make a difference if the joints were
> "dodgy" in the first place. Remaking the joints would improve things,
> not the actual swapping over.

Now there's a good explanation.

Just seen that suggested in another group as to why some people apparently
believe that pricey 'Monster' style hi-fi interconnects 'sound better'. It
was probably just the case that the connection needed cleaning and
tightening.

Graham

steveybar wrote:

> > I have seen many articles supporting this with evidence, though I am not
> > going to spend hours trawling to post a link.
>
> If there were many articles then surely you would not have to spend hours
> trawling to post a link........
>
> I support the other replies that are saying that switching the pair wires
> will have no effect.
>
> > What does help line quality is disconnecting the third "ring" wire and
> > using master sockets on all telephone extensions instead, or better still
> > separating the circuits so ADSL is only fed where it is needed.
>
> I agree that removing the ring wire may improve line quality

ADSL *signal* quality actually. By improving line balance at high frequencies.


> , but fitting more than one master socket should not be encouraged as each
> master socket
> contains a capacitor, and this may 'unbalance' the line.

No, it doesn't do that. However, it's rarely necessary AIUI. Most phones have
their own internal ring circuit and don't need the ring wire. Works that way
for me certainly, the green ? wire has been disconnected at the master socket
for ages.

Graham

Keith wrote:
> Not sure which message I read recently in this group, but someone
> suggested changing over the wires of the pair.... What effect would
> this have and is it worth trying if there are problems with the
> connection?
>
> Keith

I saw those posts too.
I am not going to call anyone who clams swapping the wires round
makes a difference a liar, but all I can say is I can't see any obvious
reason
why it should. The RF signal to/from the DSLAM is balanced and
not polarised in any way. ADSL is quite happy to work in the
absence of a connection to the PSTN and its battery feed, in fact ther
is good reason for it to work better in this condition.

There is of course a convention for connecting a phone line
in the correct polarity, the A wire +ve and the B wire -ve,
or to be pedantic A=0v and B=-50v and A should go to pin 5
and B to pin 2 on each socket but even this is often neglected
and won't make any difference in the vast majority of cases
if it is reversed, the approval of most equipment dictates it
should be immune to this. I can however point to cases where
it did matter but this has no baring on what we are discussing here.


--
Graham

%Profound_observation%

>> , but fitting more than one master socket should not be encouraged as
>> each
>> master socket
>> contains a capacitor, and this may 'unbalance' the line.
>
> No, it doesn't do that. However, it's rarely necessary AIUI. Most phones
> have
> their own internal ring circuit and don't need the ring wire. Works that
> way
> for me certainly, the green ? wire has been disconnected at the master
> socket
> for ages.
>
> Graham

What do you mean by 'No, it doesn't do that' - contain a capacitor? or
unbalance a line?

Each Master Socket contains a capacitor, and each PSTN lines' impedance
matching is based on just one line socket capacitor at the customers end of
the line.

If this isn't the case, why then is it the norm for just 1 master socket and
all additional sockets to be slaves (no capacitor)

Steve.