I have a dial-up connection, and need all the help I can get for my
browsing experience. When I am in my garage, I have this 25ft. old
dollar-store type phone cord running from the phone jack to my PC.

This usually works fairly well except when I try and "stream" internet
radio I keep getting "buffering" type interruptions.

Is there a signifigant loss in this phone cord? Would it help for me
to get a much better "monster" type phone cord? Even if the improvment
is slight it would be well worth it for me.

Thanks

DAVID

cried out

The buffering is caused my having dial up. Dial-up is not designed to
cope with streaming media speeds. Your phone cable has nothing to do
with it.

You cannot properly stream with dialup. You need DSL service at the very
minimum. The fastest you will probably be able to have with a dialup is
about 42 k to 46k under ideal conditions. This is no where near what is
required for live streaming of any kind.

Your telephone company uses a simple twisted pair AWG # 22 AWG # 24
solid conductor wire from your home to their area hub, and then it
probably goes by fibre to their central office.

Subscribe for high speed DSL service, and you will see a world of
difference.

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<David_nj_7@mailbolt.com> wrote in message
news:1166294763.934431.294540@j72g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
I have a dial-up connection, and need all the help I can get for my
browsing experience. When I am in my garage, I have this 25ft. old
dollar-store type phone cord running from the phone jack to my PC.

This usually works fairly well except when I try and "stream" internet
radio I keep getting "buffering" type interruptions.

Is there a signifigant loss in this phone cord? Would it help for me
to get a much better "monster" type phone cord? Even if the improvment
is slight it would be well worth it for me.

Thanks

DAVID

On 2006-12-16, Rosco <rosco111NOCAPS@earthlinkNOCAPS.net> wrote:
Well, a rough or un-shielded extension cable won't be helping.

Some streaming content is offered at a quality suitable for '56K' dialup,
but the results can be poor. 'Bufferring' the entire file may be the best
option - or capturing the data for later re-play. It used to take me
about an hour to get a useable 30 minute programme using the BBC 'listen
again' service over dial-up. (I had to play around a bit to get the actual
URL of the stream out of their 'player', and then use mplayer's dumpstream
option so that I could listen once the file was complete) (That's on
Linux).

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David_nj_7@mailbolt.com wrote:
You could run phone cord built out of welding cable and it's not going
to help a bit. You just don't have a big enough bandwidth on dialup.

David_nj_7@mailbolt.com wrote in
news:1166294763.934431.294540@j72g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com:

Expensive cables are usually a waste except to people who
*claim* they can tell the difference between a silver and a gold
CD-R.

Monster Cable etc. are a big scam, and people who buy $5,000
speakers (or wish they could) usually fall for it.

I have a 9-year old computer with a 33.6 modem and I was able to
(got bored, still could) listen to streaming audio and voice-
chat just fine. You might want to read the documentation for
your program more closely and see if you can change the memory
buffer settings etc. Another stick of memory might not hurt
either.

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David_nj_7@mailbolt.com wrote:
A monster cord will be a waste of good money.

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