Re: Dialup Connecting/ G-box Pricing Poll

[Thomas Martin]

I run around 40 feet to the wall, and then the wall jacks are fed with 
Cat5 to the phone company drop in the basement which isn't twisted 
pair.  Knowing rare people actually have anything better than twisted 
pair in the wall, they most commonly have plain phone cable, and the 
phone company doesn't run more than shielded solid conductor (again, 
not twisted) to the pole, I would expect you can run nearly any 
reasonable length with out any real significant penalty.  It isn't 
really fast enough to have ringing or other issues.

Don't coil it up or do otherwise strange things to the wire, keep it 
free and open of loops to minimize any inductive tendencies.

I connect at 45333 often, and with the same wire on my IBM A31P laptop 
I get 44k-51k often as well.

Tom
<>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <><
73's
Tom N�DIH
On Jan 9, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Tim wrote:
On Monday 10 January 2005 02:32 am, James Fraser wrote:
Can anyone tell me how far away you can have a CPU from a phone jack 
(for a
dialup connection)  before any sort of connection-crippling 
attenuation
sets in?
I've never heard of any particular limit to the length of line between 
the
jack and the modem, if that's what you mean. There might be issues if 
the
piece of line is of poor quality, causing noise or distortion, but 
other than
that, to the device on the end of the line, for all practical purposes 
it
looks the same if it's 5 feet or 50. I think you'd have to go a lot 
longer
than that before attenuation became a factor. In fact, that's what I 
used to
use to connect my modem before broadband: a 50 foot extension. 
Connection
speeds were fine.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  >>>>>>>>>> INTERNET ACCESS FOR A LOW AS $9.90 PER MONTH AT PENINSULA SYSTEMS 
<<<<<<<<<<
Peninsula Systems, http://www.pensys.com offers FREE for LIFE access accounts 
for the
immediate families of those men and women called to active duty in Iraq or 
Afghanistan.
--
G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...
Small Dog Electronics    http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives |
-- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock!  |  & CDRWs on Sale!  |
     Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
G-List list info:       <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml>
 --> AOL users, remove "mailto:";
Send list messages to:  <mailto:g-list@mail.maclaunch.com>
To unsubscribe, email:  <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
iPod Accessories for Less
at 1-800-iPOD.COM
Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal
www.1800ipod.com