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- From: dkw@wolferts.ka.sub.org (Dr. Klaus Wolferts)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: RFI messing up modem communications--remedies?
- Keywords: RFI, noise
- Message-ID: <qP3wTB3w164w@wolferts.ka.sub.org>
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 11:52:13 MEZ
- References: <1992Nov6.162158.10119@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: Ing'Buro f. EDV + Elektronik, D-7500 Karlsruhe 31
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- spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund) writes:
-
- > Last weekend, we moved into a new home close by a local radio station. I
- > had expected RFI to degrade our television reception, but I was aghast to
- > discover that it is affecting our phones as well. The phone lines are
- > quite noisy, and if you listen you can clearly make out the voices and
- > music of the radio station's broadcast. Some times are worse than others.
- > The phone company says there is nothing it can do.
-
- The can but they wouldn't! I think if they would use shielded cables on
- the way near the radio transmitter they would improve the situation.
- Perhaps you can replace the cabling within the house with a shielded and
- twisted one.
-
- > Needless to say, this is having a bad effect on my modem communications.
- > It is hard to establish connections, and several times I have lost
- > connection in mid session. Text scrolls across the screen in fits and
- > starts as data is transmitted and retransmitted through the line noise.
- > Several file transfers have bombed out.
- >
- > I suppose dropping my baud rate will help (ugh!), but is there anything
- > else I can try? Specifically:
- >
- > --hardware fixes? (filters and other gizmos)
-
- Use shielded and/or twisted cable. Filters may be useful, but I think
- you get unwanted signals which were catched on the phone lines between
- the CO and your flat.
-
- > --modem settings? (I have an Intel 2400B MNP modem)
-
- Use MNP connections where you can, especially the error correction
- classes MNP 2-4. If you can afford buy a modem with V.42 error correction
- (normally includes V.42bis compression too, which is better than MNP5)
-
- > --telecommunications software?
-
- No.
-
- > --file transfer protocols especially effective dealing with line noise
- > and allowing resumption of failed transfers?
-
- Use of error protecting protokolls like UUCP g, Kermit, Zmodem or others
- would help but slow down your transfer rates.
-
- > Some additional information: We have moved into the first floor of an
- > older two-flat. The modem, an Intel 2400B MNP, hooks up via regular
- > twisted-pair cable, about six feet in length, to a modular phone jack.
-
- > The computer equipment is properly grounded.
-
- Try to remove the ground connection (but be sure to use a safety
- transformer then!)
-
- There is not much hope to improve your situation more than gradually.
-
- Klaus
-
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