My Phone Line...
<div class="IPBDescription">What the hell?</div> Okay, My average NS ping is like 500 or 700...I bought a new computer thinking it would fix my lag, but nope! I'm almost 100% positive its my phone lines, cuz they are so damn old.
To the main point, Do you think if I asked the phone company, they would put in new ones? If not, am i **** outta luck?
-Please dont phase to tech, cuz I dont want people to tell me i have to go into properties and blah blah blah. I just wanna know if a phone company would replace my lines-
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To the main point, Do you think if I asked the phone company, they would put in new ones? If not, am i **** outta luck?
-Please dont phase to tech, cuz I dont want people to tell me i have to go into properties and blah blah blah. I just wanna know if a phone company would replace my lines-
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also, you could take a laptop and "plug" it into a payphone
maybe
if the problem really is phone lines, I doubt they'll rewire your house and possibly some stuff outside, or more.. not for any small amount.
but 500-700ms average on a good server is atrocious -- that's international speed. there's definitely something very wrong.
Probably, but prepare to pay for the whole neighborhood and those 5 miles...
Honestly, there's only one way to find out - find their number and call. I'm sure some telco's would have no problem recabling the line if you explain your internet connection problem, but other companies would probably never do it.
The telco and cable company here is awesome - my cable modem was dropping the connection at least three times a day, so I called the cable tech support. They did some troubleshooting on their side, determined it <i>might</i> be a cabling problem, so they dispatched someone to replace it. Within <i>one hour</i>, there was a tech in my back yard putting up another cable. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Odds are it is your phonelines, especially if the house is say 30 years old or so. All kinds of crap can happen to deteroriate
As far as the phone company is concerned, as long as I could connect at all mine didn't care for quality, and wouldn't re-run lines. At least not for free. I could have paid a few hundred dollars to get the house rewired, but that's not really feasible. Especially if you're younger and living with your parents and you have to explain exactly why you need the entire house re-wired. :P
Good luck with that.
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Lol we get noise on our phone lines anyways....I wouldn't need to make that up <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Yeah back at home the reason our lines were so bad was there was a radio station that overpowered all their towers so we kept hearing their broadcast over the phone, sometimes the tv, even once it was coming out of an appliance (maybe it was the toaster?) which was really freaky.
Yeah back at home the reason our lines were so bad was there was a radio station that overpowered all their towers so we kept hearing their broadcast over the phone, sometimes the tv, even once it was coming out of an appliance (maybe it was the toaster?) which was really freaky. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Spooky, we had to switch companies cause phoneing someone 4 doors down had the quality of phoning someone in Australia (from UK).
Same for me.
When I got my Cable modem I was getting **** poor connections and I was really mad.
They came, tested everything, added a booster and upgraded my line by adding a new thicker line to the house, all for free in only a few hours.
Phone lines are a pain in the ****, so many things can go wrong.
For all you know there might not be a fiber optic line in your whole neighbourhood! I know I don't have any in mine. But my house was made in the 60's
And that's the main problem... Mullet, make a rally, gather up at the telecom agency and protest. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->