Steve enters the 21st century..

[Steve TLS]

Finally I'm catching up with technology. I got satellite pay TV installed last Saturday (no cable here, too far out).

My ADSL modem finally arrived in the mail today and as of tonight I'm on Broadband at home. woo hoo.




(Anyone know anything about the line filters? Can you run more than one device off the end of them? The guy who built this house was a phone tech and put a nice junction box in one of the cupboards and ran two lines from just about every room back to it. I was supplied with 3 filters, one is on the phone in my bedroom, one is on the base station of my walk around phone, one is spare.

So what I want to know is, if I leave the line running to the ADSL modem as is, direct from the jbox. but in the jbox fit one filter to do every other line in the house, can I have what would be effectively 2 or 3 phones hanging of the end of it? I could always try it and see, but if someone knows for sure that it wont work, I wont bother.)

[horkn]

no clue man, try it out, what can it hurt? i tried two filters on my direct tv a couple years ago, and that didnt work.....
hey, youve been post whoring it up nicely... almost 3k! we should have another party on the open forum for this occasion.....

[Steve TLS]

Nearly there, I'd better keep an eye on it!

[TLstreak]

Yes you can. I went ahead and put filter on every line jack I had. I have a few with 3 plugs that allow your modem, phone and machine all plug in at once.

[Steve TLS]

Great news, thanks streak, I'll go ahead and try it out then.

(Oh yeah my ISP mentioned in more than one place that the modem (cheap USB job) couldn't be used on a computer hooked up to a LAN, for a while there I thought they were right, but I won that battle in the end after a few trial and errors and reboots. Now my 3 pc's are happily sharing the one internet connection and work's laptop will connect here and at work with no configuration changes, that was a relief too!)

[tl1000s]

I see a new "Picture Whore" in the making

[rzarobbie]

Oh what I would do to catch up with technology.

Congrats again!

[katana750]

broadband rules!
of course right now...I feel like I am dial up, as someone...who shall remain nameless, downloads a HUGE program from my pc.

[dragonbro]

you only need the line filters installed in a jack that you are going to use for voice/fax. i work for the phone company out here in CA and install DSL (provision the outside copper or fiber lines) everyday. i don't do the inside installation, but i have to do repairs for self installers alot. rule of thumb.......as long as there is a filter before the voice/fax equipment you should be fine. the best way to do would be run a straight line from your phone protector/box on the outside of your house to the jack for the ADSL modem and get an external filter to install in the phone box/protector. this way your ADSL signal would be going straight to the source and not flowing all over your house. the signal has to go through all the wires in the house and then to the modem and this "reflection" can cause the signal strength to weaken. the external filter has a place to hook up the wires for all your voice jacks (filtered) and a place to hook up the wire going to your modem. the only down side to this is you can only use your modem in one location, instead of picking any jack in the house.

here is a rough (very rough) drawing of what i'm talking about

[dragonbro]

oh yeah, i almost forgot to say congradulations

[EvilTwin v2]

Congrats on the high-speed. Once you've come over to the dark side, you can never go back.

[Steve TLS]

Thanks Dragonbro. I understand the diagram perfectly. It was nearly exactly what I had planned. Seeing as a separate line is run to every point already, and there is a central junction box, I'm hoping the supplied filter will do the job.


Here's what exists..

[Steve TLS]

Here's what I plan to do. (not shown, I will have to cut the loop from the line in to the first line out, this is where the filter out will go.

[dragonbro]

good stuff steve.........the supplied flilter should do the job. you'll just have to do some extra wiring to use it in its current form. if it doesn't work out let me know. i can take some measurements from a proper external filter and put up a pic for you. i could even send one to you the main job for the filter is to keep the modem noise off the voice line. you will hear a data burst about every 5-10 seconds and the white noise in the background if the filter is not working. if the modem is not plugged in you will never hear the noise since its frequency is much higher than our ears can detect.

[Steve TLS]

I've got an RJ crimper here somewhere and some RJ plugs too, I might even have an insertion tool to work on the jbox, if not there will be one at work near the network patch box

So the wiring wont be a problem, just hope the filter will handle the load / impedence of the rest. Worse case, I might even fit 2 filters in, one to do each half? I've only got the 2 phones hooked up anyway so I should be right.

Thanks again for the help and the offer