Phone Line Type

swendor · Post by **swendor** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 2:44 pm

I have AOL DSL through Verizon in Maryland. I had my service turned on in May and I got around 500kbps. Every now and then service will get slow and I'll reset the modem, Broadxent Broadband Blaster. Sometimes it will take hours to reconnect when it would connect immediately new. I was connected by a 50ft. standard phone line

I had finally had enough and called tech support. They said Verizon had no outages in my area. When I told him of my phone line, he said that over time this type of line can degrade and suggested I get a shielded Cat5 RJ11.

I've found aBelkin Internet Modem Cable which says it's Cat5.

I've also found aMonster Internet Phone Cable which doesn't specify Cat5.

However, they both promise 100Mbits of data transfer due to the low noise of their designs.

Will any of these make a difference? Also, if the phone cable has indeed degraded (if what the technician says is true), what about the lines in my walls? Those probably are not Cat5.

Please help if you can.

Boston_Bob · Post by **Boston_Bob** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 12:27 am

I dont know much about cable degrading (thats a new one to me) but as far as DSL goes the less stops, breaks, and outlets between your modem and your provider the better. Keep it away from flourecent lighting and other wiring too. Your best bet if you are experincing problems is to make sure you have clean good clean contacts on the phone line you are using. then try and cut out as much phone line as possible. If you can put the modem right off the wall jack and run cat5 to your computer, do it. When i got DSL I sat helped the tech run new cabling from the phone companies network interface in back of my building right into my apartment. I think bypassing the buildings wiring helped alot, I never had slow speeds at all.

swendor · Post by **swendor** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 9:17 am

I would love to run the line from Verizon's interface to inside my unit, but unfortunately I live in a condo and cannot have any wire visible outside. But I will try getting the modem as close as possible to the wall jack and then running the Cat5 from there to my computer.