Live Far From the Exchange - Will an Arial Help?

dax40

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I currently live out in the countryside, 2 miles away from the exchange.

Is there anyway i can get an ariel or something which will increase my speed?

I am not too sure what they are called.

Hope you guys can help.
 
An aerial won't improve your phone line.

Assuming you're plugged into the master phone socket and you've not got 1001 dodgy extensions, what Tolien said is about the full of it.
 
Try using the test socket, remove the faceplate of your master phone socket and theres a test socket hidden underneath. Plugging your modem or router into that is about the limits of what you can do.

I live 6km from the exchange and get 3.5 MBit/s this way.
 
two miles isnt far considering the electrical signals in a twisted strand or coaxial internet wire travel at almost the speed of light
thats 200 000 000 m/s
thats 200 000 km/s
and thats 1260 000 000 km/h
 
Cew27 said:
two miles isnt far considering the electrical signals in a twisted strand or coaxial internet wire travel at almost the speed of light
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Yes but the attenuation of the signal is a problem without a booster.

If you have line of sight to a friend's house that does have broadband, you could get a couple of directional attenae, point them at each other and use your friend's internet.
 
Cew27 said:
two miles isnt far considering the electrical signals in a twisted strand or coaxial internet wire travel at almost the speed of light
thats 200 000 000 m/s
thats 200 000 km/s
and thats 1260 000 000 km/h
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Except that all the different wavelengths travel at slightly different speeds, so the quality of the signal deteriorates over distance.
 
Zarf said:
Try using the test socket, remove the faceplate of your master phone socket and theres a test socket hidden underneath. Plugging your modem or router into that is about the limits of what you can do.

I live 6km from the exchange and get 3.5 MBit/s this way.
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Hi Please could explain a little more about this, i just have an adsl where the router and phone line is plugged into?
 
Visage said:
Except that all the different wavelengths travel at slightly different speeds, so the quality of the signal deteriorates over distance.
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not sure about this, I can envisage different attenuations for different frequencies but never heard about different speeds, do tell more
 
errata said:
not sure about this, I can envisage different attenuations for different frequencies but never heard about different speeds, do tell more
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I boobed....you're right. Its the attenuation rather than the speed (I was envisaging the various frequency components getting out of step with distance)

Yes...the different frequences get attenuated by different amounts, so over distance the waveform changes and gets degraded.

Must think before posting....
 
Right i live in the countryside 2 miles away from the exchange and i am using a wireless router to connect which is connected to the adsl (AOL)
 
I live 1 mile away from my exchange, i currently get 2mb - 1am onwards and 0.5mb during the day, woohooo! How much should i be able to get at this distance?
 
Something between nothing and full rate - how far you are from the exchange is irrelevant. What you're after is the attenuation, SNR margin and sync rate from your modem.
 
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