Is a shorter wire really better?

[redxii1234]

The reason I ask is that I get worse on 12ft of wire(connected to an inline coupler[it connects two 4pin wires together]) and better with 50ft(single wire) with 6pins. Any Ideas?

[DVD Rewinder]

i know that lan cables can only be like a 1/4 a mile long.. but i doubt the difference between 12 feet and 50 would make any difference

[DaveM]

None of the following 4pin cables or 6pin cables or inline couplers are used with Ethernet cables.

So could you tell us what you are hooking up?

A lamp?

Speakers?

An internel telephone modem on your PC?

[Kip Patterson]

How about ADSL?

If you use flat ribbon cable on any form of DSL you can have problems. It needs to be twsted.

Any kind of additional fittings and couplings can make it worse. The signals on a DSL line are high frequency, up to 1.5 Mhz, and the cabling can act as an antenna to receive noise.

Kip

[redxii1234]

Seems to have done nothing to it, except go a little faster. Got any links for twisted?

[MosDef112]

//Nods with Kip

Twisted pair, meaning true CAT5 cabling, typically used for Ethernet, which includes 4 twisted copper pairs or CAT3 cabling, typically used for telephone lines, on two copper pair bundles. You can get this at any major computer or electronics store.

[redxii1234]

Anyway, my first hop is 1ms consistently, when it used to be somewhere 20 to 30ms.

[tomsykes]

the 1ms hop must be within your house - to a router/modem etc. Your latency over dsl would be greater than 1ms....

[redxii1234]

Ya, i know.

"The longer the cord the more the signal will have to travel in turn slower speeds... in this case the short the better." Just an email from BellS.