Quake110
join:2003-12-20
Ottawa, ON
 ·Velcom
| reply to Bicephale
Re: POTS Splitter changed my life (sort of!)
Hey Bicephal,
I followed your diagram:
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And I have to tell you it works. Right now, the SNR is stable and my connection didn't disconnect yet (Before, it used to disconnect every ~40 minutes). Plus, the web browsing appears to be more "speedier". |
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Bicephale
join:2005-09-24
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Bravo!!! We all like to read success stories as those from
psor and yourself! Lets keep our fingers crossed, though:
no one wishes to consider extremes (see example below).
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Sophisticated European Filter Schematic - Courtesy of Old Computer
Well, photographs and/or 'STMT' captures would be nice now!
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Bicephale
join:2005-09-24
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| reply to Quake110
Hi Quake110,
I think you'll want to have a look at this:
»Re: Tweaks
Chokes on the filters do help, after all!!! |
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ardo
join:2001-12-20
North York, ON
| said by Bicephale  :Hi Quake110, Chokes on the filters do help, after all!!! LOL, you got me convinced to a point where I disassembled 3 defunct PSUs and 4 'hands-free' cellphone boards I had lying around. But then I discovered I had 3 snap-on chokes from a dead photocopier. I put these on my modem's power supply wire, telephone wire, and even the Cat5 (heck!) going to the router. I saw no difference in SNR, however, my IP hasn't changed in 2 days. I still have the 7 toroids, and will try them out when I get my splitter. Thanks for your extensive research!
P.S. I have the same problem with street lights. While I cannot do anything to have the phone lines moved, perhaps I can hire local kids to kill the light. |
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Bicephale
join:2005-09-24
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| MouHa! Ha! Ha! What a creative solution!
Most fortunately, i won't need to hire that kind of
"worker" myself because i'm moving to another city
soon and there are no poles in the street where my
DSL access can be affected by a latern... I hope i
won't find other nuisance in the backyard, though! |
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Bicephale
join:2005-09-24
·TekSavvy Solutions..
| reply to ardo
Hi again,
I forgot to make myself clear about choking the
WAN side... Well, i don't recall it's been verified
with numbers from other DSL customers but i've
seen a slight improvement in terms of RCO figures
if a ferrite choke was put on the MoDem's phone
cord, near it's casing... This was done with help
from 'DMT' Spectral Response and "Noise" graphs:
i started with twenty runs and then i removed a
turn after each measurement. In the end, i chose
the number of turns that made my graphs better.
It was still a somewhat intuitive procedure, your
results may vary but if it works then why not! On
another hand, i must comment that the seasons
affected the quality of my DSL signal, apparently;
a method which used to work months ago might
happen to bring marginal benefits later, or even
worst: once the phone line is back to normal the
choke might as well become a nuisance itself... |
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