On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 2:32:09 PM UTC-4, 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.



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.




Some of the things that effect DSL performance in addition
to line length are the wire gauge, any wire gauge changes along
the way and any bridge taps. When you switched to that new
wire, you didn't also get rid of a bridge tap that went to
another unused location in the house, did you? Any of those
things can effect performance, but it's one hell of an increase
and I would agree with krw that it's hard to imagine just
changing that 50 ft of wire made all that difference. DSL was
designed to work on typical phone wire and there can be
several miles of it between your DSL modem and the CO or
equivalent. If
there was a poor connection, a partial short, a bridge tap
that's picking up noise or connected to who knows what, and
any of that got fixed at the same time, I could more easily
see that making such a big difference.