speed up the internet.

[Brian Cluff]

Sounds like you need to dig up your phone line and wrap a spare ethernet 
cable around both ends :)

Brian Cluff

On 02/25/2013 04:48 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> Doesn't 175 KB work out to around 1.5 mb?  That's about the rate I got
> when I had 1.5 Mbit from Qworst years ago.  It's my understanding that
> bandwidth is determined by your ISP.  The more you pay, the more you
> get.  With DSL the quality of the line between the phone company's local
> office and your home is the main limiting factor with DSL.  Of course
> the longer the line is, the lower the maximum possible speed is.  I live
> about 1000 feet or so and AT&T tells me I could get 20 Mb, but they
> don't offer that speed here.
>
> On 02/25/2013 02:20 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
>> I can get 4000+KBps on a regular basis over my unmodified cable to the
>> Internet.  The very same cable will give me 48000+KBps over my Lan.
>>
>> The speeds you are talking about are so low that even a badly mad, or
>> damaged cable would achieve them thought much trouble.
>>
>> Brian Cluff
>>
>> On 02/25/2013 01:17 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>> 175kbps. or is it mbps?
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Lee Reynolds <Lee.Reynolds at asu.edu
>>> <mailto:Lee.Reynolds at asu.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Good point.
>>>
>>>     For example, 175 is my IQ, measured in Poodle Points.
>>>
>>>
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>>>     175 is a number, without context of what unit that 175 is its just a
>>>     number, between 150 and 200. :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com><mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>     is 175 a normal download speed with a standard dsl speed?
>>>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com><mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>     Thanks Nathan... I appreciate that.
>>>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Nathan England <nathan at nmecs.com
>>> <mailto:nathan at nmecs.com><mailto:nathan at nmecs.com
>>> <mailto:nathan at nmecs.com>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Countless scientific studies in the medical community have proven
>>>     that, in many cases, the placebos are as or more effective than the
>>>     prescribed medication. I believe you are a primary candidate for
>>>     placebo trials Michael!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Monday, February 25, 2013 11:58:16 AM Michael Havens wrote:
>>>
>>>     remember a few weeks ago when someone post a link some young guy
>>>     made  on speeding up a person's internet by putting a strand of cat5
>>>     next to your existing cat 5? Everyone said that was stupid but I did
>>>     it anyways. Well, my download speeds seem to have increased. Prior
>>>     to my experiment I used to stay around 145 while maxing at 159. Now
>>>     I am usually at 175 and it goes down to 159. Maybe I'm just paying
>>>     closer attention but if someone has some spare cat 5 test it and
>>>     tell me I'm right or just being stupid:)
>>>
>>>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
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