Increasing band width

[calvinater]

Howdy, we live on a dead end dirt road with no cable. Not interested in sattelites. What can we do increase our band width from our DSL?
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[Pops67Beetle]

Ok. Start at the point where the phone line gets to the outside of your house. Look at ANY union or connection and check for dirt or corrosion. Use caution, the hone line Carrie’s 54 VAC which jumps to 120 VAC when the phone rings. Once the outside connections are done move into the house. Check every jack. You can remove any phone jack that isn’t in use from the distribution block where the line enters the house. Finally place the DSL router as close to the point where the phone line enters the home…. If you can. Best I can offer. Good luck and Happy Holidays!
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[KTPhil]

Not much.

But there are some obscure settings in the Windows registry that can optimize handshaking and packet sizes, for a marginal improvement. This helped in dial-up, too, back in the day. Google for them.

[Abscate]

Unless youve used an acoustical model at 300 baud, and had a bunch of people crowding into your office to see you new 1200 baud moden, it just moot.
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[calvinater]

Just want to be able to stream netflix, youtube , hulu excetra , without the circle of death coming on every five minutes and having to reconnect to the internet.

I realize dsl sucks but thats what we got.

A neighbor picked up a Nighthawk ac 1900 ffrom netgear, hooked up after the phone companies router and said it helped, was wondering if any more options available?

My cousin suggested an AT&T hotspot. Would that work?

Sorry, i am such a luddite.

Thank you.
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[adventurebob]

Starlink. I had shit service on twisted pair ADSL at the end of a run. was paying $65 for an average of 3Mb service. I have starlink, $99 a month and average about 90mb now. It is getting faster as we move towards the production system with all the sats on orbit. Right now its only a partial constellation. Once the full thing is deployed well be Gig speed without wires.

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[raygreenwood]

So are you asking about increasing bandwidth TO the house.....or connectivity IN the house via wireless?

Meaning...if you are connected via wire and your stuff drops off due to lack of bandwidth....I don't know.

But if its a wireless problem....I was having my wireless anywhere in my house drop off anytime any of the neighbors within 200 feet ...or any of their wireless hubs or devices logged on. It would "blip" anytime anyone logged onto their wireless system.

I thought it was lack of band width...but it was actually signal stepping n each other. So...I downloaded a "widget"...free....That analyzes all wireless signals around you and shows the map...shows what the names of accounts are....shows what channel, power bandwidth, whether its 2.8 or 5 ghz....graphs everything....can also scan you entire house and show every wireless integrated appliance or system from phones to the blue tooth in my car....and shows what they pull from the system.

Its called Netspot.
https://www.netspotapp.com/features.html?gclid=Cj0...uhEALw_wcB

What it showed is NOT overlap and stepping on each other so much...but just a poor technology, low power router that was only two years old.

See.....there are routers that use multiple connectivity systems. There are several classification standards (B, G, N, AC etc,). Most common cheap ones at home are N type that make them easier to set up the "handshake" on more types of devices. They are kind of idiot proof.

They jump back and forth between 2.8 and 5.0 ghz.....but settle on whichever it finds is most prevalent or easiest. Low tech.

Here is some basic info.
https://homenetworkadmin.com/wireless-b-vs-g-vs-n-vs-ac-difference/

The Netspot app found that our Netgear router was an N type. When it detects mostly Apple phone products in the house...it would switch to 5.0 ghz...and they work fine...but would just leave 2.8 ghz....which goes through walls better.... shut off. That was affecting my Windows laptop and desktop.

So....
just bought a Netgear AX-5 last month at Best buy.....fucking DAMN.....spent five minutes setting it up.....wireless connectivity became lightning fast anywhere in the house out to the end of the driveway.

Download that Netspot widget for free...and see what you have going on. Ray

[gt1953]

We have local phone company suppling our internet. comes in on 2 wires. If we lived closer to the CO= company office. The farther you are the weaker or slower the speed. If you are paying for a certain down and up speed and are not getting it. Contact them and have them clean up your 2 wires from the CO to your house. Many bridge taps (phone company lingo) could be your problem. It would be on there side and not the house side.
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[KTPhil]

Netspot has one out of five stars on the apple app store, and says you needs a $650 piece of hardware to use it!

[busdaddy]

I'd shop around all the potential providers, depending on how long that "dirt road" is they may be willing to install lines, or equipment if you sign up for a few years of service. Just like the "free" phone that comes with most contracts they want to get you hooked and hope you don't notice when the contract expires and the rates jump. Especially if they can scoop a customer from another service, but sometime the mere threat of changing providers made to your current one may unlock all sorts of ways they suddenly have to help you. I had a TV cable ran from the road 1/4 mile away for free that way, same with a natural gas line.
But do make sure there's an out clause if the promised performance doesn't actually happen once it's installed, negotiate that in writing ahead of time, preferably for free.

The only downside to all this is the hours you may spend on hold, you'll have some of that stupid hold music stuck in your head for weeks afterwards, I wish I could charge my provider back for the time lost trying to get them to fix something.
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[1970PAKombi]

I would try using your phone as a hotspot for now. DSL seldom goes above 5 Mbps at this point. That's obviously a downfall of using a phone system.

You can get cellular routers/modems from mobile providers. Cradlepoint makes a nice product that is plug and play.

If you choose to go that route and use that for your home solution and have wired items in your home by chance, I would look into replacing the wiring too. I imagine that it's using older versions of CAT cabling.

[madmike]

We have Verizon Hot spot,, fast, but it slows down once we hit 15GB , They found out I'm a Veteran so we get unlimited data we also live on a Deadend Dirt road would not have it any other way
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