Modem cable with twisted pairs. How important?

En el artículo <[email protected]

If you think about the piece of wet string, potentially thousands of
metres long, which connects you to the exchange - through overhead
cables picking up all sorts of RFI shit, underground cables in water-
filled ducts, possibly old, crumbling aluminium cable, multiple joints,
pole-top joint boxes vulnerable to the elements, etc. etc. a 1m bit of
expensive cable is going to make precisely **** all difference.

Some time ago, for giggles, I got a Belkin "ultimate/premium" or similar
branded RJ11 - BT plug twisted pair cable from a car boot sale, brand
new and boxed, priced at 14.99, for 50p. It reduced the sync speed by
about 20% over the flat cable supplied with the router.

It's the equivalent of Russ Andrews offering a SINGLE 13A mains fuse for
25 quid and promising it will improve sound quality:

http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=1&region=UK&currency=GBP&p
f_id=1016

 

Plonk!

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

If all seems to be going well, you obviously have no idea what is really
happening.

 

We're about 200 metres (if that) from our nearest fibre cabinet, which is
about 500 metres from our telephone exchange.

Guess I need to do some speed tests.

Tim

 

To be honest, I tried TB for a number of weeks and found it wanting in
some respects.
I ended up using this old edition of Forte Agent, it needed quite a
few tweaks to get it working the way I wanted, but I am very happy
with it now. The only annoying thing is the "Outbox" files the oldest
post at the top, and there doesn't seem to be a way of reversing it

 

I have never seen a domestic ADSL router that ships with a twisted
pair RJ11 cable.
Some Cisco routers we use at work do come with them. A rather fetching
shade of lilac they are!

Any difference they make in practice are likley to be down to
psychological perception.

 

En el artículo <[email protected]

Grr. Lucky you

I'm shortly moving to a new house where the copper run from the FTTC cab
is about 20m. Fully expecting 79.9Mbps, and if I don't get it am going
to want to know why!

I see trials of G.fast (up to 300Mbps) have just started.

 

's funny that. That was always my assumption...

.... until you wrote that!

Andy

 

But as quibbles go, that is very minor.
That's why I've even paid for mine, and kept it up to date.
In my version (8.0), you can reverse that order by clicking on the
"date" column header (same for all the folders), so you can fix it by
upgrading, if nothing else.

 

But Ctrl-End takes you immediately to the bottom (on mine anyway).

Have you tried starting a response to the OP and get around what I see
as I solid black underline?

 

No problem with 'solid black line' which can be edited out on a reply.
using Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186