On Saturday 26 November 2005 04:06, JTD wrote:
Most of the time it is RFI that screws the speed. The sources include TVs, calculators, feature phones particularly cordless, ups, phone and electrical cables running together. But the biggest problem is TVs and feature phones. However I think that parallel lines before the splitter will be the most common problem in the near future. I have been getting 560~590 MB for the past week on night downloads
You just destroyed all my hopes of getting a DSL connection! I have all of those things you mentioned - ups, cordless phone, a lot of electric cables bunched together including 5-6 cat5e cables. A switch (no not the electric one! A network switch), my ol' pentium 1, my tv, my philips stereo system, two heavy duty speakers.... :|