Line Attenuation

[Icarus]

A friend just had telkom come to install adsl for him, he ordered 384 but cos of line attenuation he has to get 192,
so attenuation has to do with length and frequency, can somebody explain why 192 will work better with bad attenuation than 384.......... might be answering my own question gonna research the frequency part, so if anybody can make my life easier will be appreciated

 

[Franna]

It means that because he is to far away from the exchange - the signal is to weak. Slower throughput would give more reliability on a weak signal.

Same with CAT ethernet cable. The weaker the signal the slower the throughput.

 

[thedoc!]

Same with CAT ethernet cable. The weaker the signal the slower the throughput.

Disagree -with that statement

/doc

 

[gkm]

ADSL works in 64Kbit channels. The more problems on the line, the fewer of these channels actually work, so that can limit the throughput. The line is seriously borderline if only 192 is working.

On the ethernet cable, I am not an expert but I also thought that if the signal is too weak, then the connection is simply dead. It does not have an adaptive system like ADSL.