Does long DSL cable reduce internet speed?

[Tyty]

Hello I am wondering if having a long DSL wire from my modem into the wall jack will reduce the speed heavily...I should be getting 6mbps but it drops to random numbers and the DSL light blinks and cuts out sometime when i play online games and have steam running. I had my ISP come out to my apartment twice now, they say my line is find and gave me a new modem/router combo and replaced my wall jack but i still have the problem with my internet cutting out sometimes. I have a 15ft-25ft line cord and a short 6ft enthrum cord. would getting a dsl microfilter solve my problem even though i dont use a home phone?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

banzaigtv eredeti hozzászólása:

Or switch to cable internet. Comcast and Time Warner offer data speeds which blow DSL out of the water.

Depends where u live; easy to say until you live in an area that has no real good options.

[CursedPanther]

VDSL2 will be the last savior for traditional copper cable network to ever hope reaching somewhere close to 100Mbps. However since copper cable network has already maxed out its profit margin years ago, pretty much every major telecom company around the globe is heavily investing in fiber optic networks these days instead. The upgrade progress for the old network is happening, but very slow.

[Wampum Biskit]

Bad-Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

banzaigtv eredeti hozzászólása:

Or switch to cable internet. Comcast and Time Warner offer data speeds which blow DSL out of the water.

Depends where u live; easy to say until you live in an area that has no real good options.

very true , usually though if your close enough to an DSL hub you also have a cable access , it's not true in alot of cases if it's the other way around , im 3.6 miles away from the DSL hub so i have no access to DSL , however i have access to cable..

[Bad 💀 Motha]

DSL to Hub, 10 miles or less puts you in range; so how is 3.6 miles of any issues?
10 miles was always what Verizon suggested for DSL.

But in any case, being close to a DSL hub, and having cable access; these two mean nothing. Just cause u have access to one, doesn't mean you have access to the other.

There are many places in USA I know of where the customers have access to DSL, but not Cable. So they end up having to do DSL for Internet/HomePhone and Dish/DirecTV for their TV service

[Wampum Biskit]

Bad-Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

DSL to Hub, 10 miles or less puts you in range; so how is 3.6 miles of any issues?
10 miles was always what Verizon suggested for DSL.

But in any case, being close to a DSL hub, and having cable access; these two mean nothing. Just cause u have access to one, doesn't mean you have access to the other.

There are many places in USA I know of where the customers have access to DSL, but not Cable. So they end up having to do DSL for Internet/HomePhone and Dish/DirecTV for their TV service

i dunno , maybe it's the old infrastructure they have out here not sure , around here though there's more people that have access to cable but not DSL.... now my cable has been great , but i do know people where the cable isn't that great and wish they had more options , you know for gaming a sat system isn't an option , plus they have download limits that suck.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea gaming usually means > move to an area with better infrastructure. I know it's easy to say vs doing. But that is the reality of things.

DSL typically can be just fine for gaming; but due to lack of bandwidth won't be good idea to have many devices doing internet stuff at the same time. As best consumer home DSL speeds are usually under 10mbps for download and around 768kb/1mbps upload

And yes Satellite for internet is not good at all. You typically get dial-up like speeds with that.

For people who have lack of such options; better to just get decent Cell w/ decent 4G coverage and unlimited data plan; they use that on your PC as internet connection. I have to do this when I travel, but even on the 4G Cell service I get around 50mb Down & Up; if the signal coverage is good.

[Tyty]

CursedPanther eredeti hozzászólása:

Guys, you've gone completely off-topic. OP isn't looking for a solution on how to have a gigabit LAN party. His real issue is that his ISP isn't able to provide him a good broadband service, which 6Mbps is slow enough as it is in the first place. It won't matter if he spends thousands of dollars on state-of-the-art equipment inside the house, his options are still very limited.

Bad-Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

CursedPanther eredeti hozzászólása:

Guys, you've gone completely off-topic. OP isn't looking for a solution on how to make a gigabit LAN party. His real issue is that his ISP isn't able to provide him a good broadband service, which 6Mbps is slow enough as it is in the first place. It won't matter if he spends thousands of dollars on state-of-the-art equipment inside the house, his options are still very limited.

Yea he asked about the Phone Cable; asked and answered.
Now for the PCs you want good ethernet cables, this has nothing to do with your ISP connection speed. CAT6E is cheap, so just use nothing but that.

Avoid all the WiFi crap, period.

Im a girl...but now i know what i must do