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On 07/09/11 19:49, Gordon Henderson wrote:
Make sure you get the absolute best out of it, if you've not alreadye.g. Good filtered faceplate and make sure any internal witing is using pins 2 & 5 only off the faceplate. Get the router connected directly into the faceplate then run cat 5. etc. I'd even go as far as to re-locate the BT master socket to as close as practical to the BT dropwire coming in - which is a slight bit of naughtyness, but if it's done neatly BT won't notice...
Good advice. Already done though. :)I have one of the BT ADSL faceplates (the ones with a phone socket and RJ11 - fitted by BT when they swapped out my ISDN) within inches of the "dropwire" (which actually arrives underground) connected to a Netgear DG834 with CAT5 to my IPCop.
Over time and a number of ISP buy-outs I've found myself on Talk-Talk Business ADSL who seem to throttle all traffic all day except emails from their marketing department telling me to buy their phone package too. I'm not convinced of their more favourable "business" contention ratio either - it all gets very slow at teatime.
I'm moving when I get the brain cycles to spare looking into it. I'm favouring Xen currently. From experience; excellent customer service, no throttles, no limits.
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