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I was hoping to get that kind of answer. I'm going to use my Earthlink DSL line (1250down/327up @15,000') for IP telephony. I haven't ordered the equipment yet and my concern was I would have 1/2 or 3/4 second of latency (that would make it sound more like a cell phone). The company I plan on using ...

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I was hoping to get that kind of answer. I'm going to use my Earthlink DSL line 1250down/327up for IP telephony. I haven't ordered the equipment yet and my concern was I would have 1/2 or 3/4 second of latency. The company I plan on using is Vonage. The are offering a free Cisco telephony adapter ...

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How far are you from the CO?

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I work for the phone company, LOL.

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No, but they could route differently to eliminate hops and hence reduce ping times.

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Just my 2 cents, but I would ping the dns server to see what type of delay I get. It sounds like his connection is fine. He might just want to find a faster server.

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A few weeks ago I was helping a relative find a DSL provider in their area (Chicago N. burbs). I found an ISP which offered a special "gamers DSL" which promised extra short latency (shorter than their standard ADSL. Now I can't remember who they are, has anyone heard of such a DSL? Mind you I'm not ...

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A few weeks ago I was helping a relative find a DSL provider in their area (Chicago N. burbs). I found an ISP which offered a special "gamers DSL" which promised extra short latency (shorter than their standard ADSL. Now I can't remember who they are, has anyone heard of such a DSL? Mind you I'm not ...

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What are the downsides to using this firewall and are there others which will do a better job? Cost is not a concern.

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I realize this isn't the case with you but I have seen "Load coils" drag bandwidth down as low as 70kbps. One of my tech buddies at work found a load coil on his circuit, his speed had been as low as 125kbps, I think he was able to get it up to about 500kbps after that. Remember, I'm talking LOAD ...

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If anyone has a list of DNS servers could they list them? I know mine but not any others. I'd like to have a few to run tests or to use as alternates when mine is down. Thanks.

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When your service provider is refering to different circuit they may mean different "Pair". The phone company tech can look at your pair then check it for noise and then start looking for a pair with less noise. According too our standards 0-20db is acceptable, 20-30 is marginal and 30 db and up is ...

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I'm trying to give you an accurate a picture of the phone system without sounding synical. Generally the oldest neighborhoods are seeing rehabbing, the problem is that the inside wiring has usually been added on to and spliced dozens of times over the decades (both inside your house and on the phone ...

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Here's one of the few places you actually have "control over" (sort of, more later on this). It's called the "drop". It's the link between your house and the phone companies network.

Types of drops:

AERIAL: Suspended in the air between the house and the phone line, terminal or pole.
Issues:
1 ...

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I mentioned this in the DSL forum and it seemed people couldn't be less interested. The issue was "line or media quality". Anyone who knows anything about networking knows this is the single most important criterion for network performace. I work for a major phone company and can share a bit of ...

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Guys guys,

I work for Southern Bell, there was a customer who's line we knocked out in the course of upgrading his drop (the line between the house and the network). Both before and after replacing this line the guy had a connection of 73kbps. I ran a test with my meter and found he still had coils ...

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Make sure your coax is grounded properly. If it isn't the coax sheilding acts like an antenna and add noise. This cannot be over stated.

Does everyone in this forum think they have perfect media feeding their home? If they could see half of it they would be suprised it worked at all. Forum readers ...

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Recently we have been instructed to use "tight twist" wire for jumpers at cross connect boxes if the line is to be used for DSL. At a glance the wire looks like CAT3. If you could see what the inside of these boxes look like you would understand why your connection speeds are what they are, some are ...

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LOL, that's a good idea insisting that they take your order. Not have enough good pairs let alone spare pairs is a battle I fight day in and day out. You would be shocked to know that many if not most of the underground lines in my area were laid in the 1920's. I am told that the fact that the ...

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It's just that time and time again I see houses which have the original drop (the line which runs from the house to the terminal), the wire is classified as cat 1 which is unshielded and has no twist to block EMI or RF. As often as not this drop wire is the same age as the house, even if the house ...

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I measured the noise on my line and found a total of almost 30Db of noise. I found that any phone which had power going to it (usually in the form of a 120V to 9V adapter) added about 5Db. I had two for a total of 10Db. Phones without an external power source added no noise what so ever. I removed ...

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I hear people go on and on about speed yet I haven't heard anyone even mention line quality. Why is that? Distance and quality are practically only the delimiting factors for through put?

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That was exactly what I wanted to know. Thank you very much for the info. The last time I had checked (some time ago) the latest update was 1.35 and it seemed people were having very mixed results.

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My Telocity/DirectTV SDSL will be no more as of 9/10/2000. I'm in the midst of setting up my Linksys 4 port router to work with PPPoE on my new Earthlink ADSL line. My firmware revision is 1.30. Does anyone have any pearls of wisdom?

Thanks in advance.

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I'm looking for a site which rates motherboards (noteably Athlon/ddr boards). I've been looking at Anandtech.com but they seem to be behind on their ratings.

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If you use your computer for work (text). I would recomend the Mag innovision. It's suposed to have text as good as the best. I also noticed when you visit manufaturers web sites that the better ones not the convergence in the specs. (That's the part I like).

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If your current setup works fine write down your current TCP/IP settings then Re-install 98SE OVER your current operating system. This should put your registry back to where it was at before you started tweaking. :-)

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Somewhere I read that someone installed IE or their temporary internet folders in the ramdisk (W2K). I was wondering exactly what did they do and what kind of results where had?

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This is amazing. Here is a new high speed WAN technology readily available in the 3rd largest metropolitan area in the country (and probably the 1st and 2nd largest) and it seems to hold no interest to anyone? Had asked a question about how some game interfaces with my three year old operating ...

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If I am running W2K and I have 1Gig of ram won't windows use the 1Gig before accessing the hard drive?

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Granted using a ramdrive would increase the speed at which a web page would load because you are cutting the hard drive out of the picture but:

1. Wouldn't it be even more beneficial to have the DNS address cached as well? That way each time you click on a link within a given website you wouldn't ...

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Help everyone and put the subject in the subject line :-)

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Will this Crazy man tweak cache web pages and DNS addresses as well or do I have to install this tweak on a proxy and set up the proxy for web page and DNS caching?

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I'm about three miles LOS. I thought it might be fun.

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No one has heard of this or no one is interested?

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Iwould check the shield portion of the cable line for voltage, I bet you'll find one. Then I would ground it on your end.

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Don't kid yourself, "time is money"!

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Blind looked like it was pretty involved or am I mistaken?

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Hey C. M.

Does this mean that anyone can access the FTP server? I would like to set up a ftp so I can share files with a very limited group of people.

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Needless to say if people have problems they will complain (there's nothing wrong with this) but I wonder how many people are perfectly happy with their various providers. I'd love to see how the ratio of people who aren't having problems stack up to people who are having trouble?

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