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Harvey
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:48 am Post subject:
Max Number DSL Filters Question |
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My sister's house (Bellsouth in Gainesville FL) has seven telephones and she
is considering going to DSL. The maximum recommended number of in-house
phone filters that will permit the DSL signal to operate is five before you
should consider an ADSL NID POTS splitter to isolate the whole house. I do
not know how many wire feet she is from the switch. My question is this:
how many individual phone filters/splitters have you successfully used in a
residential installation and had acceptable DSL service? Is it true that
the more filters/splitter you have in the house the slower the DSL
throughput will be? If you have too many will it start to degrade high
frequency audio in the regular POTS? Thanks... |
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-Stephen-
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject:
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When I got DSL I decided to use one POT splitter for the whole house.
What I did was take one splitter and cut the connector ends off of it.
Then I soldered on regular phone wires on in place of the connectors.
I next went to Radio Shack and purchased two small terminal blocks.
Where the phone service comes into the basement I attached it to one
of the terminal blocks and on this block I attached my DSL phone line.
I then used my modified POT splitter as a jumper to provide phone
service to my second terminal block. On the second terminal block I
attached my seven phone lines.
It's been working good for 3 years now and eliminates the hassle of
putting a POT splitter on every phone, answering machine or Caller ID
device. Not too mention it is a hellva of a lot cheaper than
purchasing a whole house POT splitter.
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:48:37 GMT, "Harvey"
<hcohenREMOVE@frontiernetTHIS.net> wrote:
| Quote: | My sister's house (Bellsouth in Gainesville FL) has seven telephones and she
is considering going to DSL. The maximum recommended number of in-house
phone filters that will permit the DSL signal to operate is five before you
should consider an ADSL NID POTS splitter to isolate the whole house. I do
not know how many wire feet she is from the switch. My question is this:
how many individual phone filters/splitters have you successfully used in a
residential installation and had acceptable DSL service? Is it true that
the more filters/splitter you have in the house the slower the DSL
throughput will be? If you have too many will it start to degrade high
frequency audio in the regular POTS? Thanks...
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Harvey
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:08 pm Post subject:
Re: Max Number DSL Filters Question |
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"-Stephen-" <muskie@aol.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | When I got DSL I decided to use one POT splitter for the whole house.
What I did was take one splitter and cut the connector ends off of it.
Then I soldered on regular phone wires on in place of the connectors.
I next went to Radio Shack and purchased two small terminal blocks.
Where the phone service comes into the basement I attached it to one
of the terminal blocks and on this block I attached my DSL phone line.
I then used my modified POT splitter as a jumper to provide phone
service to my second terminal block. On the second terminal block I
attached my seven phone lines.
It's been working good for 3 years now and eliminates the hassle of
putting a POT splitter on every phone, answering machine or Caller ID
device. Not too mention it is a hellva of a lot cheaper than
purchasing a whole house POT splitter.
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Right. She will probably go that way except to have Bellsouth install the
splitter at the house. But I wanted to know the experience of those who
installed filters on each phone. |
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Alan
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Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:25 pm Post subject:
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"Harvey" <hcohenREMOVE@frontiernetTHIS.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | My sister's house (Bellsouth in Gainesville FL) has seven telephones and
she
is considering going to DSL. The maximum recommended number of in-house
phone filters that will permit the DSL signal to operate is five before
you
should consider an ADSL NID POTS splitter to isolate the whole house. I
do
not know how many wire feet she is from the switch. My question is this:
how many individual phone filters/splitters have you successfully used in
a
residential installation and had acceptable DSL service? Is it true that
the more filters/splitter you have in the house the slower the DSL
throughput will be? If you have too many will it start to degrade high
frequency audio in the regular POTS? Thanks...
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I had problems with Caller ID not workinmg on some phones. I went with a
splitter at the NID and never looked back. DSL signal was better, too. Only
way to go. |
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Marilyn and Bob
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Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:53 pm Post subject:
Re: Max Number DSL Filters Question |
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"Alan" <alan@erols.com> wrote in message
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"Harvey" <hcohenREMOVE@frontiernetTHIS.net> wrote in message
news:pUItd.7006$mk7.28@news01.roc.ny...
My sister's house (Bellsouth in Gainesville FL) has seven telephones and
she
is considering going to DSL. The maximum recommended number of in-house
phone filters that will permit the DSL signal to operate is five before
you
should consider an ADSL NID POTS splitter to isolate the whole house. I
do
not know how many wire feet she is from the switch. My question is this:
how many individual phone filters/splitters have you successfully used in
a
residential installation and had acceptable DSL service? Is it true that
the more filters/splitter you have in the house the slower the DSL
throughput will be? If you have too many will it start to degrade high
frequency audio in the regular POTS? Thanks...
I had problems with Caller ID not workinmg on some phones. I went with a
splitter at the NID and never looked back. DSL signal was better, too.
Only
way to go.
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To directly answer your question, before I put a splitter at our NID, I had
8 filters installed without any problems.
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Peace,
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OliverS
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Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:56 am Post subject:
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Harvey wrote:
| Quote: | My sister's house (Bellsouth in Gainesville FL) has seven telephones and she
is considering going to DSL. The maximum recommended number of in-house
phone filters that will permit the DSL signal to operate is five before you
should consider an ADSL NID POTS splitter to isolate the whole house. I do
not know how many wire feet she is from the switch. My question is this:
how many individual phone filters/splitters have you successfully used in a
residential installation and had acceptable DSL service? Is it true that
the more filters/splitter you have in the house the slower the DSL
throughput will be? If you have too many will it start to degrade high
frequency audio in the regular POTS? Thanks...
We have two phone lines, with the Ameritech/SBC/Yahoo DSL on the second |
line. We have a two-line filter on each of the three two-line phones.
We have a fourth single line filter on our fax machine, which operates
off of our second phone line. We are satisfied with the performance. I
am measuring a 1.3 mbps down out of a rated 1.5 mbps -- we are about a
mile from the central exchange. I am measuring 308 kbps out of a rated
384 kbps. We have a couple of other one line phones on the first line
with no filters. They don't get used much, but anyway they shouldn't
interfere with the DSL on the second line, even though the two lines are
in the same bundle.
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Cheers! OliverS
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