redid the wiring from scratch.....still slow! LOL seems faster when looking at pages but still tests slow. will keep you informed if/when verizon fixes the supposed problems.....thanks for your patience guys and girls! next house just might have to be cable or just trash the computer!LOL see ya...

 

Okay, who put the DSL filter on the line to their modem????? Who's your phone company? They must use the same Pakistani Tech Support outsource as my company does; I've heard so many times from customers that the Tech Support guys tell them to just put a filter on the modem and forget about the phones; they can't all be lying.....

Just hit speakeasy through dslreports.com.... I'm at 1324/942 down and up. That'll change in another hour as the kids all get home. I'm about 800' from the Adtran TA-1148 DSLAM; and it's filling up (26 out of 48 lines in use as of today). When they stick another one in the box; we'll go from one T1 to three T1's; which should help. It also depends on the ATM path to whomever you're using for your speed tests; if I go to Qwest's own speed test site (right at the core switch in Tempe), I'm blowing my full-rated 1024 up, 1536 down. (Again, that'll change when the high-schoolers get home and jump on myspace) I just can't get used to the $60 they charge for 896up/7Meg down, so I'm stuck at my speed.

Several customers in my neighborhood report that their speeds have jumped up over their old cable boxes - I'm not surprised. Even though Time-Warner advertises their speed at 5Mbps, they still put 24 modems on a node. In my business, we call that a party-line, boys and girls. How'd you like to have a party-line phone? Oh yeah; $26/month here... T-W just raised their rates (we thought they'd go down?) to something over twice that amount. Now they know why projections show we should need another box by March 10 - and they thought I was some idiot employee trying to get Denver to spend $20k (incl right-of-way purchase) to put in a DSLAM that only I would use

Now if I could just get them to stop using those stinkin' Adtrans........

 

Whoever they guy was who had less-than-dialup speeds; I'd be all over the repair service line! Does your line also have a bad hum? "Bacon frying" noises? More chirps than a room full of canaries? Or are you trying to run through a burglar alarm, a fire alarm, two DSL filters and a 1958 mechanical ringer phone? Gotta be something (and I'd lean towards bad cable-pairs just from every-workday experience), cause that plain sucks!

 

Ok here is what I told my customers whe nI worked help desk at an ISP for dial up and DSL, only I had to be nicer...

Take the freaking phone away from the computer, surely you have another jack in the house somewhere you can hook it up to. This does nothing but cause problems. You will be hard presed to find any tech with a phone hooked up through thier computer or even on the ssame jack, except maybe if they are doing diagnostics if there is a problem.

Now that thats gone and out fo teh picture, also take the filter away and keep it with the phone.

Now all you have is a computer, DSL modem, and a phone jack.
Plug the red ethernet cable in the the ethernet plug on the back of the modem.
Plug the other end of the red ethernet cable into the ethernet jack on the back of the computer.

Now plug you phone line into the phone jack on the back of the modem.
Plug the other end of the phone line into the wall.


Now... if you have any device, (any phone or satelite, alarm etc) or anything that is plugged into a different phone jack anywhere in the house, then each one of those jacks must have one of those filteres on it. If not your modem won't beable to break through the noise. You will likely get kicked off everytime someone uses that phone or device, and you will have slow connections all the time like you have.

Hope this helps.


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You guys getting 18 megs with Comcast on speedtests are only seeing the effect of their "booster". Your download is totally uncapped for the first 10 megs or so, then it caps back to 4 to 8 megs, whatever you are paying for.

Back to the OP - if you are in Verizon country, ask about FIOS. That's fiber to the house. Faster than DSL or cable and I believe you can bundle other services with it.

 

"Now all you have is a computer, DSL modem, and a phone jack.
Plug the red ethernet cable in the the ethernet plug on the back of the modem.
Plug the other end of the red ethernet cable into the ethernet jack on the back of the computer.

Now plug you phone line into the phone jack on the back of the modem.
Plug the other end of the phone line into the wall.


Now... if you have any device, (any phone or satelite, alarm etc) or anything that is plugged into a different phone jack anywhere in the house, then each one of those jacks must have one of those filteres on it. If not your modem won't beable to break through the noise. You will likely get kicked off everytime someone uses that phone or device, and you will have slow connections all the time like you have.

Hope this helps."



this is how i have it hooked now....still slower then it should be.....i will be contacting verizon personally instead of my isp. my isp is a customer of verizon, you get the picture. i like the fios idea. again, remember, we are looking to move soon. so newer house hopefully will have the options. thanks guys.

 

just followup. called verizon and took a lot of time and talking to supervisors who said no work is being done in the allentown area. called my isp again who swears they have a work order or something like that in which verizon is working on the problems????? i am home for lunch and tested the system today and it is just under 700kbps......so lucky? finally fixed? who knows......it wasn't the hookup, because i had really slow speeds after redoing all the wiring to be more efficiant.....and no filter or phone is on the dsl line now! thanks for talking me thru this crap.....see ya.