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handyman · 11-12-2006, 12:15

The quality of telephone lines that are damaged and have water leaking into them can be sunstantially degraged. This is called egress or ingress (something like that). I would imagine that this extra noise on the line would have a substantial effect on packet loss, thus slowing down data transfer.

11-12-2006, 12:15	#4
handyman Permanently Banned Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Nr Carnforth Age: 50 Services: M6 Keele Posts: 5,462	Re: ADSL and rain... The quality of telephone lines that are damaged and have water leaking into them can be sunstantially degraged. This is called egress or ingress (something like that). I would imagine that this extra noise on the line would have a substantial effect on packet loss, thus slowing down data transfer.