DSL Wiring Suggestion from K7FJ

I signed up for 7Mb/s, the highest speed available. My DSL was running at 1.6 Mb/s when I first installed it.  Not good, but I could live with it.

I knew the Qwest twisted pair was a long run and a major impediment to DSL speed but, on a whim, I decided to check to see if the telephone wiring in my house might be adding to the problem.  I disconnected the modem from the telephone modular connector in the wall and ran a long telephone modular wire out a window so that the modem was directly connected to the telephone line at the telephone box on the outside of the house.

My download speed jumped from 1.6 Mb/s to 5.7 Mb/s and I'm a happy camper. My guess is that a lot of houses have telephone wiring in the walls that act to inhibit DSL speed.   I told my ISP and they were amazed .. had never heard of connecting directly to the Qwest line on the outside of the house.

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