Err? WTH?

Gimpymoo · 5 Jun 2009 at 15:23

Bell wire? WUT?

What, an actual bell getting its power from the phone socket?

Sorry, have only ever known wireless door bells

Gammawolf · 5 Jun 2009 at 16:37

Yep, in the olden days that wire used to carry the current that rang old style bell phones. But now days all modern phones work on the 2 wire system rendering this third wire obsolete. I think I read about that the bell wire was introduced by BT for compatibility a long time ago with older phones.

PiKe · 5 Jun 2009 at 16:40

If you are using an extension lead, they're fully wired, so there is still a change the bell wire is inducing interference, if you stick a very thin bit of black tape on the bell pin on the adsl splitter that your router plugs in to, it might help.

Gammawolf · 5 Jun 2009 at 20:21

Ok will try that, my SN Margin yesterday was about 5db, today its hanging around 14. Didn't do anything for speed gain though :mad:

Edit: the adsl filter only connects to pins 2 and 5 so nothing for me to cover up.

tolien · 5 Jun 2009 at 20:24

It won't. When it's at 14dB, if you reconnected it would drop to 6dB and you'd get a higher sync rate at the expense it would disconnect instead of the lower SNR margin.

manic_man · 6 Jun 2009 at 14:55

Removing the bell wire added 4.5Mbit to my sync rate, went from 16Mbit to 20.5.

Shame i'm having to use WiFi to connect and the WiFi on the BeBox router manages around 10Mbit throughput max

Gammawolf · 6 Jun 2009 at 17:23

manic_man said:
Removing the bell wire added 4.5Mbit to my sync rate, went from 16Mbit to 20.5.

Shame i'm having to use WiFi to connect and the WiFi on the BeBox router manages around 10Mbit throughput max

Gimme your internet D:, soo far all thats happend is an increased sync of about 300kbps, something I suppose..