said by mikeiver7:. . . Do not use CAT5e for the phone line to the router. The capacitance per meter is much higher than that of CAT3 and will have a detrimental effect on the performance if the run is a fair length.
That's strange. I have had 24AWG Cat5 (175-200 ft) for years (Sprint installed it for their 10/10 SDSL and 4 phone line ION service) and have used it with many services and this was never brought up. And the one Q Tech that was able to find my initial problem with Qwest, bad lines from the CO to the cross box (that have been fixed with FTTN or so said), after many techs failed, said he got the same identical reading at the NID as he did at the plug. And reading the bare wire for resistance issues said the line from the NID to the jack that plugged directly into the modem "was the cleanest and best run he'd ever seen". Then with his personal knowledge of Qwest line noise issues and their hardware, he grabbed the right modem (2Wire 2701HG-D) that he knew could deal with the noise on the Qwest lines. I already had every modem Qwest used, from trying to TS this for years, and they did not work, except that one. Until recently, even with the new FTTN upgrade in my area, it did the trick nicely. That is until I started having complete phone and DSL outages. A couple weeks ago I was sent a PK5000, no difference.
I have always heard and noticed, as well as what the manufacturing specs are, that as you go up Cat4, 5, 5e, 6, 7 the transmission capability gets better? Would that not hold the same for this? Or are we talking a Qwest thing here? Just very curious. Thanks.