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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 10:25 AM
Subject: Is Bezeq fooling us?
> I was recently checking the Surfree's forums and I saw an interesting
> message called "Bezeq is fooling you" at the programming forums.
>
> It talks about bezeq spliting the phone lines to save money (ONE+ONE). It
> does not matter with voice but it is a mess when you try to pass data with
> those phones. That is the reason why in some houses the internet is ALWAYS
> so slow. It has nothing to dowith isp or modem or computer... just bezeq.
I
> cannot post it since it's hebrew sicnce I dont think most of you could
read
> it
This is *old*. Bezeq has been doing this for ages. It is also based on a
misunderstanding.
In fact, when you use a phone line, you just use 3.1kHz of bandwidth. This
is all that's needed for voice, and for regular modems. Even a 56k modem
squeezes everything into this 3.1kHz of bandwidth.
Therefore, if Bezeq uses a splitter, you can pass 2 or more phone calls over
one physical pair of wires -- every channel gets its own 3.1kHz.
For modem communications, this doesn't hurt you, and is completely
transparent.
ADSL, OTOH, won't work with this, as the whole point of ADSL is to use the
rest of the bandwidth of the copper wire.
If you get low modem connection speeds (check the modem's "carrier" message
after the connect), it is ususally because you pass several "merkaziyot" on
the way.
Gavrie.
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