Phone cable length - does it make a difference, performance-wise?

[Sabretooth]

Length is not much of an issue but tight bends can cause the packets that are not paying attention to hit the sided of the cable and get corrupted.

In those cases, you just disconnect the cable and shake the corrupted packets into a garbage can. Make sure you use some Lysol, cuz they tend to get smelly!

 

[excaza]

Did the technician also tell you to purchase adamantium-plated Monster cables?

 

[ZirconBlue]

But, yeah, it's not much difference between phone and data cabling. In fact, most modern office buildings use the same network and jacks for phone and data.

Well, yes, but in those cases they're typically using ethernet cable for the whole system, not standard telephone wire.

 

[The Norseman]

Length is not much of an issue but tight bends can cause the packets that are not paying attention to hit the sided of the cable and get corrupted.

That's what she said.

 

[fetchbeer]

Length is not much of an issue but tight bends can cause the packets that are not paying attention to hit the sided of the cable and get corrupted.

This tends to be more of an issue with fiber optic than with copper. And when the phone techs who have been doing copper their whole lives are suddenly doing fiber, they tend to do installs the exact same way (a rats nest). Which is why fiber to the home is taking so long to spread out of it's testbed areas.

 

[JoelKatz]

Length is not much of an issue but tight bends can cause the packets that are not paying attention to hit the sided of the cable and get corrupted.

The 0's get through just fine. Only the 1's tend to get stuck on the curves.

 

[Justin39640]

I also have Bell Fibe7 for a month now, the copper wire runs for maybe 15 feet from my router to exterior of the house and another 25-30 feet of copper wire to the utility pole. I think the fiberoptic is maybe 250 meter from my house, so I guess 10 feet more or less does not change much.

Speedtest rates my connection at 7.24 Mb/s (download) and 0.83 Mb/s (upload). What is your speed ?

http://www.speedtest.net/

I did not experience any connection drop or instability.

Was that to a local server?
Verizon Fios:
NY to NJ (about 75 miles) - 36.72 down 31.64 up
NY to San Fransisco - 8.30 down 9.61 up
NY to Sidney Australia - 1.25 down 3.11 up

I have fiber from the pole to the side of my house. Then it uses coax to the modem/router (combo wireless) and the receivers. Cat5e to the tower and printer.

 

[nimzov]

Was that to a local server?
Verizon Fios:
NY to NJ (about 75 miles) - 36.72 down 31.64 up
NY to San Fransisco - 8.30 down 9.61 up
NY to Sidney Australia - 1.25 down 3.11 up

I have fiber from the pole to the side of my house. Then it uses coax to the modem/router (combo wireless) and the receivers. Cat5e to the tower and printer.

Yes a server right nearby, but other servers give more or less the same result. I ordered fibe7 so I do not expect to get more much more than 7 Mbs.

 

[Abe_the_Man]

I worked for Bell Internet tech support for 3 years and I can't tell you the number of times switching from a 20' cable to a 6' cable solved someones connection problems. But at the same time I have a 15' cable connected to my dsl modem and have never had a problem. I say try a shorter one if you are having problems or your speeds seem slow. Otherwise it should be fine. It can really go either way.