Improving speeds

I once had an angry customer (my brother) so infuriated (didn't want to return his CAT5 [xx(].. dammit I was using it!) that he ripped the kick-n-kaboodle out of the wall (only way he could hurt me was by killing my internet[B)] - he's like twice my size..)

Anyway. The filter (from telkom techie) had wires sticking out and some were ripped clean off the circuit board. Looking at the board, I saw that only 2 wires were fixed to an actual circuit - the other two were soldered onto the &lt;green part&gt;. <i>Knowing </i>that phonelines actually justs use 1 pair.. this made sense (I presume the others are for future use, like in CAT5 UTP 'ethernet' cabling).

I proceeded to fix it.
First, I tried to solder (without a soldering rod!! hey, i'm not an electronics xpert, hence &lt;green part&gt;.. so I used a lighter and heated a paperclip [;)]) all 4 wires back on.
- WHAT a mission.
Second, I scrapped that idea, and cut 2 wires (the ones that weren't used) off. It was easier to get the other 2 back on. I ended up not soldering them back @all (hey, you try soldering with a paperclip!!). Everything worked.

I've gotten some spikes upto 700Kbps, but they're very transient. Also I dunno what this did to my avarage connection speed, considering noise, etc. Unsure if packets are being dropped, but it seems fine.

Hack this splinter from my soul.. or tweezer that cateract from ur iBall CL [....]
 
Jayzuz, what a bunch of monkeys!!!
The filter is to remove high frequency signals (used by ADSL, above 4 khz), from the telephone part of the line (below 4 khz -- duh).

The little squarish metal jobbers are audio frequency transaformaers, to isolate the signal, the other metal bits with wire around them are inducters, (these pass low frequency signals, but tend to block high frequency), the red battery goodies are capacitors, used to sink (short out) high frequency signals on the handset part of the chain.

If you're worried about the filter affecting the ADSL signal, just unplug the filter and handset ....

You will note that unless one of the above is faulty, it won't make ANY fargin difference..

I presume you would expect Telscum to replace the stuff you damage by buggering around with electronics you couldn't even be bothered to understand!!??

(Ironing 'rod' out of wireclip, indeed .... grumble grumble)
 
ADSL Speed system

Filter or Not ?

Remember the basics of ADSL(It sends info using frequencies not binary code) so to make sure you have the most frequencies available for your Internet connection they designed the filters only for voice over the Line sins specking on a phone your voice uses more than 38% of the frequencies on the line but the human ear only needs a fraction of that range to understand and recognize a human voice and the filter just clips of the test of the frequencies (23%) to save space on the line.
test it by plugging in the phone and the modem without any filter and you will see when you test the speed on your connection to the net, make a phone call while you bench your connection and you will see that the speed drops a lot every time you speak.

To increase your Internet speed by electronically broadening your bandwidth do the following :

1.Never put a filter between your ADSL modem
and the outgoing line. doing so will limet your
modem to only use 19% of the available
frequencies, which means on a 1MB band
line it has only 398 Kbps of space to work
with (512Kbps adsl line has about 1025 Kbps
of band so use it)

2.Please make sure all your phone tines are filtered
on the adsl (no phones must connect directly with
the adsl line, only throw a filter.)

3.if you use windows make sure the modem connects
throw a wide aria port with your ISP not a ISDN channel.
to check go to view network connections and right click
on your ADSL account icon and select properties
and look in the first tab, must not have the word ISDN
in the ticked connection . The ISDN part limits the PPPoE
link like a filter if you take it out of the connection proses
you will see (if you set up the network from the modem
to the Pc up correctly) a 193Kbps line can run at about
320Kbps (if your PC shows the network connection at
10Mbps you know the network connection is set up wrong.

4.Your account must show broadband connect(Pure PPPoE) in network connections not dial-up account(ISDN in PPPoE)

5.The PPPoE Stands for “ Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet “ used to connect two WAN's .
 
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