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dave

On 08/29/2013 12:06 AM, micky wrote:
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:46:06 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:32:09 -0400, micky
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:52:20 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:23:04 -0400, micky
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:54:29 -0500, CRNG
wrote:

My data usage is about 8Gbytes/month total down/up. Just curious:
what download speed do you typically get from U-Verse?
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I don't remember my speed, and I have Verizon, but I used to use some
pretty thin phone wire (the kind used to go from the wall to the
phone) to go from the the interface box 50 feet to the DSL modem.
When I swtiched to thicker, stiffer, round, white wire, my download
speed tripled and is now about what Verizon promised.

Not buying it. After a mile of 24ga wire, a few tens of feet of 26ga
isn't going to matter a whit. You had something else wrong that
replacing the wire solved (or it was a good placebo).

Well it was no placebo. I'd measured my speed a dozen times on a
website that does that before I changed the wire; and I measure it a
dozen times after I changed the wire, and it was consistent before and
consistent afterwards.

Maybe.

No maybe. Do you think I can't read a number off the screen?

As to why it changed, transmission of computer data is more
complicated than analog sound or power to run a light bulb. I added
sci.electronics.repair and maybe we'll find someone there who knows
more than we do.

After a mile of (really) crappy 24ga. wire, not so much.

Yes, much. And there's more to the story.

I had bought special THIN phone wire with modular ends, so it would go
through a narrow space. After I installed that, I could still listen
to webradio but I couldn't download webpages. So I went back to the
wire I had been using (typical wire, not especially thin, from the
wall to the phone, with modular ends.) and everything worked again.

So then I though, maybe even this wire is too thin, and I changed to
the round white wire with 4 wires inside, thicker, each wire is
stiffer. It didnt' have modular plugs so I had to put a modular wall
jack on each end, and plug a short modular cord in each end, and when
connected, that's when the download speed tripled.

I don't know one, but maybe there's an active newsgroup that
specializes in this sort of thing.

What sort of stuff? Electronics?

A lot of those drugstore phone wires only have red and green.