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Distance to COIs there a way to see what is the distance CO for cable and dsl from your house before you chose. |
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RizzleQCunningham's Law Enthusiast Premium Member join:2006-01-12 Windsor, ON |
RizzleQ
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2013-Aug-4 1:22 pm
Cable: No, but distance doesn't really matter for cable DSL: Can try asking TSI to search your postal code for an existing account and they can use the attenuation on their line to make a rough estimation |
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» www.telcodata.us/search- ··· e-detail I found this and it worked. How far should dsl be at most to get good speeds. Im loosing about 1 meg 5 instead of 6 down from my service I have with dsl now and .2 meg for uploads .6 instead of .8. Cant wait to get cable and test it out. cant wait to test cable |
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» www.telcodata.us/search- ··· e-detail Im losing almost 1 meg for my 6 meg so im at 5.23 down and losing .15 meg from my .8 up im at .65. im 5-6 km from oc. Cant wait to test cable. |
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RizzleQCunningham's Law Enthusiast Premium Member join:2006-01-12 Windsor, ON |
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That's exactly what I get on my perfectly synced 6016/800 DSL. It's DSL overhead like Crowbar says; you just have to live with it. |
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Can you experience any loss with cable |
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RizzleQCunningham's Law Enthusiast Premium Member join:2006-01-12 Windsor, ON Ubiquiti UDM-Pro Ubiquiti U6-LR
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RizzleQ
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2013-Aug-4 2:26 pm
On my 30/2 cable with TSI in Cogeco land I get 31/2.2 pretty consistently. However, cable is susceptible to slow speeds at peak times, since it's a shared line with everyone around you. I just happen to live in an area with little congestion so I hardly see any slow downs. |
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said by RizzleQ:Cable: No, but distance doesn't really matter for cable DSL: Can try asking TSI to search your postal code for an existing account and they can use the attenuation on their line to make a rough estimation Technically, it still does. The longer the cable, the stronger the signal degradation is. And coaxial cable has a shielding all the way to the modem. Also take a look at this bell-telephone-madness. All those wires are telephone wires. The crosstalk rate must be crazy.
Sorry about the quality.
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dazium join:2007-02-24 Windsor, ON |
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log into your modem and look for the line stats. add the attenuation numbers together and divide by 18 |
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While distance isn't as a big a factor with Cable Internet as it is with DSL, signal degradation does play a role.
If you have Cable TV in your residence with the line coming into your house going through a splitter to your Cable Internet modem in addition to 2, 3 or more TVs, there will be degradation of the signal. Ditto if the cabling throughout your house is older RG59 of questionable quality instead of RG6, though arguably not as big a factor.
In my situation, I don't have Cable TV, and there's luckily a Rogers box on my neighbor's front lawn where my house's line connects to (in addition to other houses in a section of my street). The cable, RG6, comes into my basement, where it goes into a coupler with ground clip, and then from there is another RG6 cable going straight to my cable modem nearby. No splitter. This scenario provides a very clean signal. Your mileage may vary.
The quality of your interior phone wiring also plays a role for DSL, especially if you live in an older high-rise apartment building with poorly maintained/crimped lines going up to the units from the building's telco room. The picture that dmitry_tek posted is a perfect example of such a scenario. |
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