Posted by Haas on August 08, 2008 at 18:33:48 from (12.65.48.98):
I'm on dialup internet service because I'm unwilling to pay the big prices to get satellite or cable service. Cable company wanted more than $1000 to run the cable the 800 ft or so from the highway to my house. They say Verison has wireless service in my area, but it's about the same as the satellite. Anyway, my dialup service has been getting worse and worse over the past year or so. Phone company has been reworking the wiring around here, so sevice will come out of one of those phone serice boxes you see sitting around. It's less than 1/4 mile from my house. The service was supposed to get better when that switch was made, but it did not improve at all. So...been trying to figure out the problem. I had noted a "tick" sound in my phone which you could hear while talking or also in the dial tone. So today, the repairman was at my mother-in-laws house up the road because the contractors doing the switchover work had messed up again and her phone was out. My wife mentioned our horrible connect speed and the "tick". He asked if we had an electric fence. That made a light come on in my head, as the electric fence runs right by the pole where the phone line junction box is that puts the line underground to my house. I unplugged the fencer and when to the house to check out the internet. The connection improved by at least 4 or 5 times. Not that much on the meter, but at least it seemed 5 times faster. What to do??? since I need the electric fence. I spent most of the day trying different things. I even but 50 ft of shielded cable in the fence at the phone pole with the shield grounded and the fence in the center wire. No luck with any of that. I also made sure all the splices were good and not a twig or weed was on the fence anywhere so there would be not arcing. Most of the fence was down stream of the phone pole and I discovered that if the fence was disconnected about 50 ft past the phone pole, all was well. Just as it was if the fence was off on the upstream side of the pole. So I changed the feed on the fence to come from the other direction and put a break in the wire where the disconnect was made after the pole. So now the fence feeds both directions with a break near the phone pole. That solved the problem. I suppose the fence was generating some RF that was picked up by the phone line. There are two of those junction boxes (or boosters or whatever they are) in the phone cable atop the pole. I think at least one of those is new. If high speed internet ever gets here at a reasonaly price, I will get it, but for now it looks like I can make it with the dial up. I was about ready to try the Verison wireless.
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