I got rid of a lot of problems and connected at higher rates when I arranged
it so that the phone wiring came directly from the outside box to the
computer, then the entire rest of the house was wired off the 'phone' jack
out of the modem.

GC

Jeff DeMaagd wrote:
>
> My father is having troubles with his modem, phone & ISP, it seems to
> disconnect him often and although the connect rates are high it seems
> not much data actually gets through.  I am using the same ISP and
> dial-in phone number and I don't have this problem.
>
> I have swapped out modems to no effect.
>
> Is there a way to analize or test the phone line quality without calling
> in a tech from the phone monopoly?
>
> We'd like to determine the source of the problems.  The phone line
> _sounds_ pretty clean but that's not a good indicator.

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