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To: xstuckey who wrote (78198)	4/9/1999 11:22:00 AM
From: James B. Ditsworth	Respond to of 186894

<Several years ago I had an extra phone line installed in my home just for internet access. I recently discovered that I am unable to connect to my ISP on this line at any rate over 26,400 bps. > I have exactly the same story to tell and am not happy about it, I can tell you. My response time on web pages is very poor. I do know this: my Dad, who lives next door, regularly connects at 48,000 kb/s so the problem isn't noise on the lines externally. It must be noise that creeps in somewhere between the telephone pole and the wall socket. Your comment makes me want to try two things: 1) connect to the primary line to see if it works any faster, and 2) connect to the line coming into the house directly without using the internal house wiring. I have also called USWest about DSL services (I'm too far from their switch) and Cox Cable (not provided in my area). Will jump to one of those services when available. Any other comments from other thread posters welcome. Thanks. Jim Ditsworth

To: xstuckey who wrote (78198)	4/9/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

xstuckey - Re: "Can you offer any suggestions ? " Pray for cable ! Actually, my "guess" is that the phone company should be able to "switch" your lines at the central office or substation. They could assign your old, "standard" phone line to the "new wires" and move your "new number" to the old wires. Call them up and ask. Politely ! Paul

To: xstuckey who wrote (78198)	4/9/1999 12:58:00 PM
From: James B. Ditsworth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

OT Re: "Several years ago I had an extra phone line installed in my home just for internet access. I recently discovered that I am unable to connect to my ISP on this line at any rate over 26,400 bps." Hmmm. Guess what. I just connected on the 'primary' telephone line at 40,000 bp/s! So - my experience matches yours. Jim Ditsworth

To: xstuckey who wrote (78198)	4/9/1999 4:44:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

You know, xstuckey, the same thing happened back at the apartment where I used to live last year. My roommate, also an Intel employee, had a second phone line installed so that he could log in to work from home. This was supposed to be a line conditioned for high-speed data access, but every time we used the line, we could never get anything faster than 28.8 Kbps. Meanwhile I was able to get main "voice" line cranking at close to 40.0 Kbps. We had kind of an inside joke about this. Since we both used the same second line for computing, if he has work to do and I'm just web surfing, he'd ask me to get off the data line. So I say, "OK. Guess I'll just switch to the high-speed line." Tenchusatsu