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| Thread ID: 50643 | 2004-10-28 00:25:00 | ADSL and Alarm? | HadO (796) | Press F1 |
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| 285250 | 2004-10-28 04:51:00 | I do understand what they do but in hindsight used the wrong word. I meant instead of getting the Telecom guy to put in one splitter - use 4 "filters" for the jackpoints. |
HadO (796) | ||
| 285251 | 2004-10-28 06:19:00 | The filter option will work fine, providing you are not in a fringe area and using an internal PCI ADSL modem. In that case the full install would be preferable. 4 filters should be OK, if that was the question. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 285252 | 2004-10-28 07:10:00 | I will be using a Dynalink RTA300 (I think thats the model) 4 port ADSL switching router with NAT and Firewall - providing 2 PCs via Ethernet. | HadO (796) | ||
| 285253 | 2004-10-28 07:53:00 | > The filter option will work fine, providing you are > not in a fringe area and using an internal PCI ADSL > modem. In that case the full install would be > preferable. > > 4 filters should be OK, if that was the question. Also if you are using cordless phones you may find interference with any that are plugged into the line even with the filters. I have tried three different brands and they all get noise on them when plugged into the line that has been JetStream enabled (with filters) but are fine on the line without Jetstream. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 285254 | 2004-10-28 08:51:00 | Hmm... that's a concern as we have two - they are digital though. Are the cordless phones you mention analog or digital? |
HadO (796) | ||
| 285255 | 2004-10-28 10:01:00 | Hi HadO , we're in a "fringe " area wrt dsl , and live in an old farm house that's been modified heaps and has some old wiring [ and a hot water cylinder ] dating back to 1963 - we also have a monitored alarm which we wanted to keep active , and 2 analog [sp] cordless phones - so we elected to pay for the full install - a bloody nice bloke came [ apparently a Telecon {not sp} contractor] , sorted out what speed we could get i.e. was it 256k or better , had a cup of tea , used a f@#king big drill to bore thru parts of the roof beams, cleared out the 3 dead rats he found , connected a splitter , put the wire behind some kind of square plastic white stuff so the wife wouldn't object , had a cup of tea and a yack about the future of broadband in NZ - and argued about Ford vs Holden , had a smoke while I sorted out the router , waddled off down to the local exchange to make sure all was well , rang me on his cell phone and gave me his number in case there were problems ... and all is well , and this was so I could get Orcon broadband connected !!! The analog phones are fine and I'm getting the 256 I'd hoped for despite living 6km for the [ oldish exchange] Of course I'm no tech and indeed I'm a noob to all things 'puter , however IMHO the $$$ spent on a full install we're well spent ...and it didn't cost me a single Whitebait ... :) |
KatiMike (242) | ||
| 285256 | 2004-10-28 10:10:00 | KatiMike - thanks for the input. I think I'll see how it goes before slapping some hard cash down... Worst case scenario with trying the home job - I would have wasted $20 and possibly have a week or two without net access. |
HadO (796) | ||
| 285257 | 2004-10-28 10:13:00 | ...but who will clean out the dead rats ??? :) | KatiMike (242) | ||
| 285258 | 2004-10-28 10:59:00 | I thought I may as well add my input as it's quite easy to do it yourself . Although not recommended as you don't own the phone lines and any damages caused you'll be footing the bill . You can just do it in reverse, How to get standard phone on 2nd jackpoint, this is usually where the line is connected to the master jackpoint in series . It's quite easy if you've got two jackpoints already in the house both running on the same line (master and slave) and you want that other jackpoint to become plain phone connection, while the master becomes ADSL connection, The master in line usually contains more wires than the others, usually the other jackpoint has either 4 or only 2 wires . You'll need a phone cable that has the large plastic male connector, we cut it so that we have enough wire to work with, 10cm or more to be safe, we require 2 wire joiners, else we can solder two wires together or somehow find a way, I prefer the joiners as no need to strip the sheathing off the copper wires . OK, the tricky part is getting the wires, we need to know which is the other 2nd jackpoint wires, usually opening up the 2nd jackpoint reveals the wire colours, and hopefully it's not the same colours as I had found looking at the master jackpoint, basically I disconnected the wires and tested if I had a dial tone . Plug the filter into the jackpoint, plug the large male connector into the filter, join the second phone jacks wires with the wire from the connector and thus enabling a normal phone connection . There's many variations to how to do this and how to save you money by DIY telephone wiring kits, and more complex ways, but I wanted to keep it short . Kame |
Kame (312) | ||
| 285259 | 2004-10-28 11:06:00 | Can you run though that again? Maybe with pictures,cue cards and hand gestures..... |
metla (154) | ||
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