OT broad band was Re: Alan says I gotta tell you!
- From: "Claire Owen" <claire.owen@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:21:42 +0200
"Alan Dicey" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de
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> Claire Owen wrote:
>
> >
> > Looks terrific and the pages load much faster than they used to for me.
> > I am still on dial up having installed broad band last week to have it
work
> > at half the speed of my old dial up!! The wonders of modern technology
are
> > slow here in the country I guess.
> >
>
> Some of the speed benefit will be down to the lack of picures on the
> index pages. Text loads a lot faster than pictures. I have tidied up
> the html page code a bit, and added a Table of Contents for quick
> reference - there is a link at the bottom of each page to get back to it.
>
> I don't know how it works in France, but in the UK the telco, the phone
> company, is responsible for the wiring up to the master socket, the
> first phone point in the house. The in-house wiring is up to the
> homeowner, and may have been installed when the house was built, added
> to by previous occupants, or all be DIY.
>
> In my case it was all DIY, done with the four-wire and six-wire BT
> signal cable of the time (25 years ago)(by me :-) ). This cable is *no
> good* for broadband, and I have resorted to connecting one of those
> little splitters to the master socket, so that the house wiring only
> gets telephone signals and the broadband router is fed from the
> splitter. All this is pending my rewiring the house telephones with
> twisted-pair cabling, which will support broadband.
>
> If your house wiring is not to modern twisted-pair standard, it could
> affect the reliability of the broadband signal. This should be may
> noticable as the broadband light on your modem flickering even when
> there is no computer activity. If you are a long way from your exchange
> the signal may be pretty degraded already and any slight fault will be
> critical. Your modem may be falling back to a slower connection speed
> because it can't get a reliable connection.
>
> Digression: dialup modems work at the same frequencies as the human
> voice and can connect using almost any voice telephone wiring. Voice
> frequency transmission doesn't require much in the way of special
> cabling, just good connections - a piece of wet string can be made to
work.
>
> Broadband uses higher frequencies which do require some sophisitication
> in the transmission line. Twisted pair is a transmission line that uses
> pairs of wires to carry each signal. By twisting each pair together it
> becomes much better at rejecting noise and can carry higher frequencies
> for further (there are lots of complicated electromagnetical reasons for
> this). One of the deciding factors about whether you can get broadband
> at your home is how good the cabling is between you and the exchange -
> if it's old-fashioned straight wires you're usually out of luck.
>
> Um, I do go on a bit. Hope that was some use.
Great, I do understand that, I'm not to bad at wiring. just a little slow at
doing it owing to the thought process.
The wiring is all standard telephone cable six wire,done by me in 1998. I
hope it's not too old I will look and see if it's two strand or something
else.
Our phone line comes in from the Telecom line to one point, from there I
have three extensions, one is to a UK box so that I could plug my phone/
fax/ answer phone in, typically the french telephone plugs are a different
shape and the Uk combo wouldn't work when we first got here. I also have two
extensions one in the bedroom (never used) and one in the office.
The modem box is plugged into the main telecom socket. I don't know if it's
what you would call a spliter but it plugs into the main socket with a
telephone plug hole for the normal phone on the one side and an smaller
socket that takes a cable to the modem underneath, then there is a phone
piggy backing off of the modem that gives me "all inclusive " phone calls
within france, for that I had to wait a few days from plugging in the modem
but it switched on after 3 days I think. I still have phones plugged into
the Uk socket and the office socket from which I can call mobiles and or
outside France as I have cheaper deals for those calls than the broadband
service can currently offer. I seem to be able to send big files very fast
so that side of the broadband bit is working but picking up emails or
loading web pages via broad band takes forever and I'm not exagerating.
Yesterdays trial took 20 mins for one note on the news group to appear!
The modem box has a long start up process when unplugged and replugged and
hovers around the PPP stage for several minutes, this is the main part of
the problem I believe, so at the moment I am living in hope that it will
soon be solved and I can stop geting on my knees to unplug and replug
between the dial up and the broad band, just in case it's working today!
Waiting hopefully
Claire in Montréal, France.
http://claireowenperso.free.fr
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