On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Kurt Kessler wrote:

> hooked up. My 'new' office, is about 15' from where
> the cable enters the house. That is why I was
> wondering if it is advantageous to have it split
> closer to the modem, or if it makes a difference. Just
> want to make sure I am more informed this time round.
> Isn't a whole lot on the net about this, unless you
> take everything at dslreports as the gospel...

If there was a difference of a few hundred feet or more, a few dB's worth 
of signal might be lost.  But the speed would remain the same.