Now, I know that dialup s slow. This, however, is ridiculous, but I knew it was coming. I finally got a computer desk in my room yesterday, and I moved my computer in there temporarly to make sure it fit to my needs, the only problem is a 25 foot phone cord that I have to use to get to the phone jack in the other room. cut my connection from 50.6Kbps to a whoping 24.0Kbps.

Meh, I only have to put up with it for a few weeks until I get my new computer and cable internet.

*braces for the hard waves of laughter from the broadband-ed Massassians*

*Waves hard with laughter*

Mmmkay.

Well, just so you won't be dissapointed.

HAHAHA!

hrm, i have a 24 foot cable for the other computer and it runs at the normal 50kbs.. crappy phone cord?

Well, it's from a bargain bin at Wally World for 2 bucks, so I would say yes, it is very crappy. Temporary, but still crappy.

I had a 26400-28800 connection from 1998-2005, so suck it up! I'm now on cable, and I've noticed that I seem to use the computer much less now.

Does phone cord length really affect it that much? I have a cord running from my computer to the phone jack on the otherside of the room, around maybe 15 feet or so, and it runs at i guess somewhere in the 42-48 kbps.

wire quality, more expensive usually means better copper in the wires

Because you don't wait so long for **** to happen

i just moved and no broadband or dsl where i'm at......so i tried out this new thing called AOL 9.0.......it's much faster than it was back on my 14.4kbps 486 to say the least. only thing i can't do is play online games, and that sucks. -_- the forums and web surfing is pretty fast for dialup tho.

lol u suck, kiss my feet, shine my shoes, i'm an animal baby, rar

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I seriously doubt a 25 foot cable dropped your connection speed to half.

I don't. The latest TWiT had them talking about copper cables and how they got gigabit connections on it--but it dropped to like a third when the cable got longer than 15 feet.

Yeah. 25 feet would definately drop the speed. Cause you know, the hundreds of feet the data has to travel through to get to your house makes little difference...

Definately get a new phone cable.

Oh, and as a random fact that probably doesn't help you:

The dreamcast comes with a damn long phone cord (I think 25 feet), that is pretty high quality. Might want to try that out.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]I don't. The latest TWiT had them talking about copper cables and how they got gigabit connections on it--but it dropped to like a third when the cable got longer than 15 feet.[/QUOTE]
An analog transmission at 56 Kbps is *COMPLETELY* different from a digital transmission at gigabit speeds. The data resolution at that kind of transfer rate is far more dense and far more easily corrupted.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]I don't. The latest TWiT had them talking about copper cables and how they got gigabit connections on it--but it dropped to like a third when the cable got longer than 15 feet.[/QUOTE]

But that's for a connection between two computers, so the cable length is the length of the transmission. For a phone line, there's the distance from your modem to the jack, and THEN miles over telephone lines to the servers. From 5 ft to 25ft makes little difference in the overall length the data has to travel.

whoops, i see that was already addressed

I'm pretty sure the analog signal is amplified before it leaves your house. There's no way such a low voltage signal would make it several miles.

I don't think so. The old analog amplifiers of phone lines were the cause why in the past some remote places were unable to have DSL. However, to fix that the phone companies just needed to remove the amplifiers of the lines (or let's say replace them with different kind of amplifiers, which happened when the companies switched from analog to digital technology). I never heard anybody would have needed to change anything within their houses.

Well, of course if the place was very remote indeed, it might have been possible that even the house itself had to have some sort of amplifier. Then it would be an end-user problem.

45.2 kbps so :p as well from a 56k modem user