Krellan
join:2001-06-06
Castro Valley, CA | reply to d_l
Re: [Speed Problem] Lost high frequencies over last few weeks Thanks for the suggestions.
I turned off the ringers on all phones in the house, and called my landline from my cellphone, just letting it ring and ring until the limit was reached (around 5 minutes or so). Repeated this a few times.
Turned off and on the DSL modem, to let it resync. Did this before and after the ringing. This was all at night. Immediately after the DSL modem synced up, I checked the sync speeds.
Before = 5440
After = 5728
A little improvement, but that's better than nothing. No difference in attenuation that I could detect (the modem rounds all readings to the nearest 0.5dB, and this change was probably much smaller than that).
What you say about AM stations at night is true, but the big lower-frequency AM stations around here are all clear channel 50,000 watt blowtorches. They broadcast 24/7.
As for the little stations on the higher frequencies, it's true that they power down, but the spectrum remains just as noisy. AM radio stations travel farther at night. So, instead of hearing 1 local station on the frequency, I'll hear about 3 or 4 very distant stations, all talking on top of each other.
Is there any way I could convince the phone company to take a look at the wiring? Or, do they have a policy of not caring about DSL quality of service, other than "it works"? |
