ShawnJ
join:2009-01-20
Louisville, KY
| reply to Anon1
Re: Speed & Wiring
I have done online speed tests for Insight and Zoomtown. The tests tell me that Zoomtown has a 15Mbps Download and 12Mbps Upload that is compared to Insight's 10Mbps Download and their 1Mbps Upload. With that said then Zoomtown is the better choice. I used to live in NKY and i had Zoomtown an it blew Insight outta the water for speed. |
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Anon1
@fuse.net
| I think there are two leading culprits to low bandwidth results...
The Zoomtown modem will train itself to the highest possible sustainable speed. Based on your 1Mb comment, there are two probable culprits:
1. House wiring.
- Either the wiring connect at the demarc box outside your home has a "incomplete connection" or the wire within your home is spliced, respliced, twisted and taped together - creating significant signal loss and the net result is the speed you are seeing. My experience has taught me that all of the copper on the wires coming from your house needs to be connected at the demarc. With a voice only connection, a lousy splice is no problem. Lousy splice being where the wire jacket is removed, and along with it a fair amount of the copper inside.
- Your distance to the Cincinnati Bell phone cabinet / central office. DSL is design to work best within 18,000 feet of the central office. Distances beyond that can create bandwidth constraints.
Check and fix the outside box wiring and rerun a dedicated wire for the zoomtown modem. If that doesn't do the trick, the ball is in bell's corner. |
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