[ale] dsl

[John Mills]

Jeff -

On 23 Jul 2002, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> DirecTV/Bellsouth DSL required the filters.  If you didn't have them on
> the phones, there was a distortion that you could hear in the dialtone
> and when you pressed the keys.  In fact, with the distortion, the phone
> switch couldn't detect the DTMF (sp?) tones.

In my case it wasn't nearly this pronounced. Phones worked fine, ADSL
worked fine. I heard the 'hiss' on one phone.

> One of the other DSL ISPs (Speakeasy?) that I spoke with apparently did
> filtering at the street and used a different copper pair to go into the
> house.  

My late, lamented NorthPoint SDSL line used separate copper into the house
and (naturally) no filter.

 - John Mills


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