I've had two phone lines to my house for quite a while. The second line had our alarm system on it. The first line was primary phone and DSL. Seeing there is no longer a reason for both lines I've moved my home alarm system over to the primary phone line. The alarm has a phone line loop through so when it triggers it disconnects the phone while calling the alarm service. I noticed poor performance on a speed test today so I went out and soldered the twisted wires feeding the alarm pass through connections. The speed came back up to a little better than the test I did two days ago when I first switched the phone line over. Todays first test before soldering was download of .17 Mbps and after soldering 1.05Mbps. The test two days ago was download 1.04Mbps. I know the solder helped a bit today but really the wires were twisted and crimped tight together. My speed tests today were within 10 minutes of each other could that account for the
big speed difference? Or were my twisted wires already oxidizing or whatever to impair the connection? Also curious what others think about how much the phone line looping through the alarm system which adds about 100 ft round trip to the line hooking into the house wiring might effect performance. Contact me offlist unless others find this interesting.
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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