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mrbubl

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Does CAT 3 or a "better" signal than standard 4 wire TELCO cable? If
one was to rewire from the NIB-NIC with CAT wire will their electrons
travel better? read faster connection and the like?

'TELCO' hasn't installed any 4-wire interior wiring in decades. The faux
old-style cable available in the stores is mostly junk. Buy the real stuff-
it doesn't cost much more.

For simple POTS voice service, assuming the outside plant in your
neighborhood is any good, damn near anything will work. If NIB-NIC means you
want to go from the demarc to the computer, a direct line using cat5e will
likely give you a cleaner signal, since the twisting cuts down on the noise
and cross-talk. If you are doing the whole house, definitely use cat5e or
higher, just so you never have to do it again. A direct line from demarc to
computer can make DSL a lot less fussy, if the rest of the inside wiring is
crap.

This place needs a rewire pretty bad, but since I can only get 40k dialup at
the demarc, it ain't real high on my priority list.

aem sends...

I am 17K' away from the CO,and can only get 768K DL and had 1.5 before
with another provider. House has OLD 4 wire and I can easily run CAT5-6
for the ADSL new from the demarc to the server. Don't really care about
voice on this line as it is a data line primarily. The OLD 4 wire was
run by the TELCO way back when 60's-70's as a voice line but would like
to increase my DL speed.

CO did a line check and said there was an error on the line but then
called back and said test was a false + but tried to uncap the line to
1.5 but kept loosing sync. There opinion was everything on there side
was good so that caused me to think I could run a new CAT5-6 line to the
server and things on my side would be "better".