rosenqui
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join:2004-05-28
Kanata, ON
| Re: Bell sucks! Make absolutely certain that your inside wiring isn't partly to blame. My POTS line gets split into separate voice/DSL lines at my demarc box since I have extra pairs coming into the house, so I've never had any issues. My parents however signed up for DSL a few years ago and they were getting terrible speeds.
At first I thought it was their distance from the CO that was to blame, but we went around and disconnected every phone in the house since not all of them had DSL filters. My dad put the ones he was given on the oldest/cheapest phones figuring those were the ones most likely to cause interference. With everything but the DSL modem disconnected from the line his speed jumped to near the maximum - about a 4-5x improvement!
We eventually traced the problem to an older Nortel cordless phone, but to ensure that there wouldn't be a problem in the future we used a stock DSL filter to split the line where it entered the house, then kept the voice portion of the line isolated from the DSL portion. The DSL modem is the only thing on the DSL side of the splitter. |
