Hi,
My question is, how much internet speed and connection quality can affect cable lenght and type installed at home?
We have adsl internet since 2003 so inside house from street there goes phone cable with slighty thicker wires, then about 25 meter long telephone 4 wire cable, from which about 8 meters are unnecessary spare, at the end the cable is split into two parts with two wires each going into RJ11 connectors->modem, then telephone line goes all the way back through the same cable where it is linked with a short phone cable to the wall outlet nearby and from there goes another 10 meter long 4 wire cable to the next room outlet, where finaly is plugged our only stationary phone.
Assuming that the cable lenght outside house to the nearest DSLAM is within or close to the outer borders for VDSL(2) max distance and I have currently very stable and constant 15Mbit/2Mbit internet speed (limited by ISP, because they said 20Mbit is too noisy or unstable, something like that, I don't remember exactly) with nice 6ms ping. My 40 meter away neighbour house on the same street have 20Mbit.
Is it worth trying to replace the old 25 meter long 4 wire phone cable inside the house with 10 meters shorter and more in VDSL specs cat5 twisted cable and run phone line through seperate cable and is there even slightest possibility that I will have better chance for higher internet speed (they offer 20Mbit/5Mbit for the same price) and is it worth asking again to test my available internet speed?
My question is, how much internet speed and connection quality can affect cable lenght and type installed at home?
We have adsl internet since 2003 so inside house from street there goes phone cable with slighty thicker wires, then about 25 meter long telephone 4 wire cable, from which about 8 meters are unnecessary spare, at the end the cable is split into two parts with two wires each going into RJ11 connectors->modem, then telephone line goes all the way back through the same cable where it is linked with a short phone cable to the wall outlet nearby and from there goes another 10 meter long 4 wire cable to the next room outlet, where finaly is plugged our only stationary phone.
Assuming that the cable lenght outside house to the nearest DSLAM is within or close to the outer borders for VDSL(2) max distance and I have currently very stable and constant 15Mbit/2Mbit internet speed (limited by ISP, because they said 20Mbit is too noisy or unstable, something like that, I don't remember exactly) with nice 6ms ping. My 40 meter away neighbour house on the same street have 20Mbit.
Is it worth trying to replace the old 25 meter long 4 wire phone cable inside the house with 10 meters shorter and more in VDSL specs cat5 twisted cable and run phone line through seperate cable and is there even slightest possibility that I will have better chance for higher internet speed (they offer 20Mbit/5Mbit for the same price) and is it worth asking again to test my available internet speed?
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