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A prepaid ADSL

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WIll it be better if I put a Lan Cable from PC to PC?
The room is 32 meters apart?
I got a router that supports 4 hubs. Mega 105WR
 
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Hmm, I dunno if Telkom is gonna let you do that... they would want to charge you line rental on that line, so it would not longer be prepaid. Then you would have two separate incoming ADSL lines?
 
The ADSL service cannot be used on prepaid lines :(
It would have been great if one could do that, but no - Telkom forces you to pay 2 x line rental for the same piece of copper.
 
No, you can't get ADSL on a prepaid line, why not put it on the fax line?
 
Superior said:
WIll it be better if I put a Lan Cable from PC to PC?
The room is 32 meters apart?
I got a router that supports 4 hubs. Mega 105WR
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Yea, 32 meters is fine and you will only start having problems at about ~80 meters.

But why do you want to put ADSL on your fax line? Why not just share the closer plan 2 with ADSL 384 line via the router?
 
Ja, fixed networks are best! :D Use the money you would have paid on the second ADSL to upgrade the speed on the first ADSL.
 
stocksie said:
CAT5 cable can be upto 100 metres so no problem with the distance between PC's
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I always thought that, but to be honest. I work in an environment where there are network points in almost every room, next to every corner. There's a CAT5 cable running a whole tad further than 100metres from one point to the other and I'm connected directly to it each day. No loss of "quality" I can sense in my time using it, although it gets a bit clogged up with the amount of users (we're looking into fixing it).

I just don't quite believe the whole 100meter story to be honest. :p
 
t3ra? What on earth?

teraside said:
I always thought that, but to be honest. I work in an environment where there are network points in almost every room, next to every corner. There's a CAT5 cable running a whole tad further than 100metres from one point to the other and I'm connected directly to it each day. No loss of "quality" I can sense in my time using it, although it gets a bit clogged up with the amount of users (we're looking into fixing it).

I just don't quite believe the whole 100meter story to be honest. :p
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Switches. That is usually the "magic" behind running a 100Mb link over distances longer than 100 meters. But I have heard of it running over the spec, eg heard of a 10Mb link over UTP Cat5e that ran about 250 meters or something. But have I ever seen a 10/100Mb link over 100 meters? No! They usually FAIL or drop to 10Mb when reaching ~100 meters due to interference etc etc and, duh, going over spec.

;)
 
ld13 said:
Switches. That is usually the "magic" behind running a 100Mb link over distances longer than 100 meters. But I have heard of it running over the spec, eg heard of a 10Mb link over UTP Cat5e that ran about 250 meters or something. But have I ever seen a 10/100Mb link over 100 meters? No! They usually FAIL or drop to 10Mb when reaching ~100 meters due to interference etc etc and, duh, going over spec.

;)
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I'm connected @ 100mb constantly with that cable :p There are a few switches doing their thing though ;)
 
Superior said:
my lan link is 10/100/1000mbps
Is it fast?
Will any speed effects occur if distance is 24 metres ( I added 3 metres for movements ect.) ?
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Your link is not 10/100/1000mbps, that is just what it is capable of. It should run at either 100mbps or 1000mbps - that is fast yes. There should be no speed degradation over a measly 24 meters.

teraside said:
I'm connected @ 100mb constantly with that cable :p There are a few switches doing their thing though ;)
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Now what did you expect? Of course it will work then as there are a few switches doing their thing. No single cable in that network will be longer than 100meters. :cool:
 
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