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19 January 2003, 05:13 PM
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I am currently a home highway user. I live in the country, and share a phone line with a few other houses. When the other houses are logged on or the phones are on my connection speed goes down.
I think Bt are multiplexing the line?
Is there any hardware/software I can get to grap and hog more of the available bandwidth?
The Saint
I think Bt are multiplexing the line?
Is there any hardware/software I can get to grap and hog more of the available bandwidth?
The Saint
19 January 2003, 05:27 PM
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Its not possible to "share" an ISDN line in that sense. An ISDN connection is 64K connection from your equipment to the ISP. You either have 64K or you have nothing. Each Phone Line (inlcuding the line used by your HH box) is a dedicated "pair" of lines back tot he exchange. Do you mean that several houses share the same phone number and telephones ? - They may share the cable - but the cable itself is made of many pairs.
You can "bond" multiple 64K isdn channels together. A home highway connection actually has 2 channels which can be bonded to form a 128K conn. If 1 Channel is being used by a voice phone connected to your HH box then you will only get 1 channel and hence 64K. This is only supported by a few ISPs and invariably costs more - so I'm sure you'd know if you had it !
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You can "bond" multiple 64K isdn channels together. A home highway connection actually has 2 channels which can be bonded to form a 128K conn. If 1 Channel is being used by a voice phone connected to your HH box then you will only get 1 channel and hence 64K. This is only supported by a few ISPs and invariably costs more - so I'm sure you'd know if you had it !
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19 January 2003, 09:39 PM
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It's probably the content you are accessing rarther than your connection. You might also want to try a different ISP that provides a better connection to the rest of the net.
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20 January 2003, 01:30 AM
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Is it not the site you are connecting to that has the biggest impact on your connection
eg Microsoft on a busy SP rls day, web site not always available, downloads time out etc etc
other sites are damn fast
Steve
eg Microsoft on a busy SP rls day, web site not always available, downloads time out etc etc
other sites are damn fast
Steve
20 January 2003, 07:28 AM
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You try the difference between BT(crap) and AOL(good), then you will see the differnce.One of my m8's has just changed on my advice, he cannot stop raving about how fast AOL is compared to BT that he had before.Plus, with AOL you have no usage condtions, unlike BT who have just lowered theirs again!
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20 January 2003, 09:24 AM
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Richi.
On ISDN ? PSTN ? BroadBand ?
As an ISP BT Openworld has some monumental bandwidth into the BT Internet peering points. AOL use BT for much of their infrastructure. If its BroadBand then its down the number of users on your dslam using that ISP affecting the contention. As AOL build the broadband customer base you'll see it detoriate unfortunately.
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On ISDN ? PSTN ? BroadBand ?
As an ISP BT Openworld has some monumental bandwidth into the BT Internet peering points. AOL use BT for much of their infrastructure. If its BroadBand then its down the number of users on your dslam using that ISP affecting the contention. As AOL build the broadband customer base you'll see it detoriate unfortunately.
Deano
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