Phone Ringing Causes ADSL DIsconnect

dknguyen said:

THe Telus guy changed the box my connection was in from one that was 20 blocks away to one that was 1 block away and the problem went away.

I don't like a central filter just because it was one of the reasons I chose DSL over cable- I could use any telephone jack in the house. If I used a central filter and limit the areas where I can plug in the PC, I might as well go cable and have faster speed

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dknguyen said:

THe Telus guy changed the box my connection was in from one that was 20 blocks away to one that was 1 block away and the problem went away.

I don't like a central filter just because it was one of the reasons I chose DSL over cable- I could use any telephone jack in the house. If I used a central filter and limit the areas where I can plug in the PC, I might as well go cable and have faster speed

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Nigel Goodwin said:

Don't know what you use over there?, but here ADSL filters have one input, and two separate outputs (using different sockets) - one ouput is low-pass filtered, and feeds the phone, the other is high-pass filtered and feeds the ADSL.

Each phone in the house has a filter feeding it, fltering the HF ADSL signal out, and the ADSL modem has one feeding it, filtering out the LF audio and ringing tone.

An alternative is to have just ONE filter, directly where the phoneline comes in, and fed all the phones in the house off the phone output of that single filter, and the modem off the ADSL output from it.

I use a combination of both - the incoming line is split two ways - one way goes to an ADSL filter and feeds all the telephone sockets in the house, the ADSL output is unused. The other output of the splitter feeds directly to my attic (where I am now), and where another ADSL filter is used, to feed both the modem and a phone next to it, just because the phone output was there, and it saves me walking across the room to where the normal phone socket is

So I've got just two filters, for six phones and one modem.

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dknguyen said:

I have a wireless router, but I don't use it...cordless phones interfere with it waaayyyy more than the incoming calls. Because a while back, my parents at the silly idea of switching all the phones in the house to cordless phones.

I don't know what difference the box makes, but I don't know how the system is set up either. Maybe it uses some large high quality line over long distances and then the box splits it up into low quality lines before it goes to your house. Or maybe it's a repeater or something. I don't know.

THe DSL that is comparable to cable hasn't reached my end of the city yet. All I know is my friends regularily have speeds of 500K and mine is half that.

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