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On 29 May 2008, at 10:27, Richard Price wrote:
>
> I shall go one better and say that I ran ADSL for over 3 years on a  
> 15 meter
> extension taking the most convoluted route from the master socket to  
> my
> office.  Oh, and it probably had more than one staple going through  
> it as
> well.  Wire was the cheapest of cheap kits bought from Wilkinsons  
> (think it
> cost me about a quid).
>
> Never had a problem with the ADSL tho...

... on the other hand, we got an instant upgrade from ~2.5 Mbps to  
~7.5 Mbps by moving the router down to the master socket and using  
HomePlug doodats.  It seems the internal phone wiring that the  
original builders fitted back when this house was built _less than ten  
years ago_ (and post-ADSL, IIRC) is not good enough.

There are so many variables and points-of-failure with ADSL, there's  
just no way of telling.  You might be fine with miles of overstretched  
pre-war doorbell wire bashed into crevices with sledgehammers, but on  
the other hand, a one-foot length of gold-plated OFC-shielded armoured  
nanotube cable bathed in liquid helium and kissed into existence by  
kittens and angels might be inadequate if the signal from the exchange  
just can't quite push it any further.

Tom

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Tom Gidden
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