| Home Made Splitter, Whadya think? Well, after thinking alot during language arts doing in school, I remember a post about someone saying something about a in-line filter just being like..a degraded splitter or something (I believe paladin)...so as you can see I have made my OWN splitter out of a *splitter* and a filter and a 30 foot telephone line. Guess what it works! Just can seem to close the box  SNR Margin reported by Intel is 13, and I have regular pots service on my phone! Now even when you pick up the phone and use it, it doesn't degrade the margin. So what do you think? Temporary solution? (didn't have sync when I came home today ) or possible permanent! I feel so pround of myself, hehe  WOW! SNR just bumped up to 14 and my sister is on the phone...cool!
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| BTW: The other pair WAS a activated second telephone line which is now not in service...I will be using my existing homerun instead of the regular cord out the window  but I wanted to see if I would get better margin if I didn't, but there is no difference
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get a shielded phone cord, or use a phone cord with lower length and you will be better. |
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Actually, the 30 foot cord is the absolute minimum (had to move modem just for it to reach!) About the shielded phone cord, that is a good idea. Does it sheild all types of interference, or only certain type (ie: radio waves) Also, it is available at radio shack or a place like that?
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Probly get shielded at Home Depot, and yes, shielded is designed to keep out radio freqs... If you go shielded, you should be fine on length... just shorter is better |
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Ok, thanks. Also, my MPOE along with alot of other I am guessing, is right next to the circuit breaker. The line runs about 1 foot from the power box, then up to the roof and along the siding. Does the power box create any interference, like an electromagnetic field? Would shielded protect the line against that?
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No, I believe as a standard, the power lines have to be shielded, but you are shielding the wires from other things... like sun spots, radios, and other such EMI |
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Ok, I searched homedepot.com and didn't find a category on shielded wire..doesn't mean they don't have it, but I did find this
»www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN···60&DRC=4
I have heard of the different categories of wire, and was wondering if the most costly (Category 5e Plenum) was better than a regular Cat 3...right now my homerun line is Cat 3, and would it be better if I used a version of CAT 5?
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 spgGrrrr
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NOT Texas! | Bad times ahead. That door needs to be closed to protect against moisture. Right now, a heavy fog could take you out. |
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Yep, it's closed now. I took those little things off and now it closes.
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spgGrrrr
join:2001-10-31
NOT Texas! | Cool! |
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Yep, and it's all in hopes of 384/128 |
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| I did the same thing with my NID. In fact I used the same splitter. I connected the DSL line to my modem using a 6 foot cat3 line through the wall and into my garage. From my garage I made a 100 ft cat5 line to my router. I used to get about 600K down (I'm not capped) and now I'm getting the full 1220K download! My modem is very happy since I've not lost sync or had to power reset the modem for about 2 months now. I did, however, upgrade the firmware of the Wirespeed modem and that took care of the sync-no-surf problems I was getting daily.
I bought a 3 pack of the splitters for $20.00 at CompUsa..now I have a couple spares in case the splitter fails.
My NID is located inside the exterior wall with a cover plate and the splitter is located right behind the NID inside the wall. It's working great! |
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cool, guess it's not that unusal Also, how far out from the CO are you? Or are you on a CO?
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pretty resourceful, livinarizona!
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Thank you! I felt very proud of myself, hehe  |
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 UorThemIs It U Or Them ?
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1983 IBM-PC | Yeah nice work. If that little filter at the SNI improve noise margin to 14dB, then I guess a good Seicor splitter will probably bring you to the 16-17db range which is what you need for 384k speed, you are pretty close to where you want to be...just 2-3 more dB is all you need..
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You think a splitter will improve the margin even more?
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UorThemIs It U Or Them ?
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1983 IBM-PC | The problem is 14dB is still not enough to bump u up to 384K, or at least I wouldn't risk for stability vs. speed.
What good does it do if your line is unstable at 384k? It actually slows you down with higher data loss and thus screw the ping time as well? I am already surprised you can get a stable 192K at your kind of distance while quite a few people couldn't even able to hold 192K sync rate at that distance and have to cancel the service.
The bottom line is, you need all the possible help to get that 384K speed you want...
You don't have much choice, isn't it?
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That is all true...but will a splitter really increase my margin anymore than it is? Or are am I at the max for my distance period?
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