Internet and networking Gurus

[steve_t]

You would be amazed at the amount of people who use the wrong plug...

Yeah, nothing with what people do with computers amazes me any more. It's little wonder that IT personnel make so much money. So many people can barely manage to turn their computers on

[iYRe]

Yeah, nothing with what people do with computers amazes me any more. It's little wonder that IT personnel make so much money. So many people can barely manage to turn their computers on

errr.. some make lots of money.. I was self employed for a few years, but I got sick of dealing with, and being treated like scum by people who had been ripped off by all the cowboys out there..

People giving bad advice, people charging for stupid things like powering off an one a router (yes sir, I can fix that for you, thats a 30$ call out fee and a minimum of one hour labour at 125$/hr - instead of power it off and on and call me back if that doesnt work THEN you can pay me to fix it).
Most of them are worse than used car salesmen.. I had a franchise with a group whom shall remain nameless for legal reasons, but whom demanded I charge people for stuff I didnt do, or they didnt really need.. it was sick.

[Gremlin]

The speed your modem reports you connect at is not the same..
Mine says:

Line Rate - Upstream (Kbps):	1017
Line Rate - Downstream (Kbps):	20787

Correct... but if the sync rate changes with a change in ISP....

Yep, had that before, of course it was down... it never goes up

[iYRe]

Correct... but if the sync rate changes with a change in ISP....

Yep, had that before, of course it was down... it never goes up

That should never happen, because unless you are changing to an ISP that has their own hardware (there's only a few who do and only in some areas, like vodafone, telstra, telecom, slingshot, orcon, for example), then the equipment you are syncing with never changes, and its probably just co-incidence.
I would expect your sync speed to remain the same but your browsing/downloading speeds to change.

If say, you were connected with orcon in Auckland on the north shore (so on orcon's own "telephone exchange" hardware (DSLAM)) and you moved to telecom, your sync speed would change, because you would be changing physical ADSL hardware (DSLAM) at the "telephone exchange" (and you would know because there would be additional charges to be reconnected to the "telecom" infrastructure). Not only does the hardware change, but the type of hardware changes, as different providers use different DSLAMS (nokia, huawai, alcatel lucent, etc).

If your sync rate changes when you change ISP, and its not hardware related, its just coincidence. Probably just because your router was disconnected and reconnected

[avgas]

But the ADSL socket of the filter is unfiltered right? And most modems now only come with an RJ11-RJ11 cable so you have to use the filter unless you have a BT-RJ11 cable from a phone or something. Surely the filter being in situ would make 3/10ths of F-all difference?

Filter is band-pass. So won't affect operation one bit (ok I didn't plan that joke )
So naked with filter = naked without filter. Speed won't change as ADSL is within bandwidth of bandpass.

[Ronin]

Filter is band-pass. So won't affect operation one bit (ok I didn't plan that joke )
So naked with filter = naked without filter. Speed won't change as ADSL is within bandwidth of bandpass.

Unless you get the moran who uses his old dialup cable and plugs it into the filtered side of the equation.

Or the sky techs who NEVER filter their gear behind the TV.

Or the people who think that one filter does the whole house.

[Usarka]

Is filtering legal?

[p.dath]

Is filtering legal?

Read this section of the Wiki:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/wiki/Cate...otorcycle_Laws

Make sure you are talking about filtering as opposed to lane splitting. The terms mean different things to some people.