BTOR Flat modem cable

Today I moved my BTOR modem from the living room to under the stairs where it would be tucked away nicely.

I did this by crimping some RJ11 plugs on around 10-15m of CAT5.

Upon checking the max attainable rate, I discovered it'd gone up by nearly 2000kbps - rising from the low 88,000s to the high 89,000s, despite going from a 1m cable to 10m! I've been logging the data from my ECI modem since I had it, and the max attainable has never moved from the low 88,000s.

It makes me wonder what gains are to be had from using a short, high quality twisted pair cable in lieu of the supplied item.

Edited by mikehiow (Thu 25-Apr-13 00:58:45)

It really depends on the environment. DSL is designed to work on twisted pair conductors that aids interference rejection. A length of flat cable in a noisy environment can cause degradation in the signal quality.

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I'm confused.

You describe moved the router, not the modem, and changing the cable between the two.

But the Subject and the max attainable suggest you moved the modem?

I didn't even notice it said router in the first sentence, must have meant modem because of the RJ11
plugs.

In reply to a post by kasg:

I didn't even notice it said router in the first sentence, must have meant modem because of the RJ11
plugs.

Indeed - the router terminology was simply out of habit.

You can edit it for up to 12 hours after posting .

Way ahead of you

Uh uh . Three minutes 57 seconds behind me actually .

Your reply wasn't visible when I started editing, but fair one

Edited by mikehiow (Thu 25-Apr-13 01:10:21)

It's a very interesting result though! A big increase in potential speed for longer lines than your yours.