[ale] Better ISP?

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:31 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> Or you can do what AtNex suggested to me -- cannibalize one of the
> regular phone filters and wire it into the DMARC.
>

Easier: put a splitter at the demark and filter one leg. Use that side or
the house phone setup and the unfiltered for the dsl modem.

>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:42 AM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net>
> wrote:
> > Minor suggestion:
> >
> > Since my modem and router are together (and a few cables run from the
> > router to computers and switches around the house), I divided the
> incoming
> > phone line between 'modem' and 'phones' and just put a single filter at
> > the split on the 'phone' side. Radio Shack has the filters; they weren't
> > expensive when I bought them. Fry's certainly has 'em, and probably the
> > "big box" retailers too.
> >
> >  - Mills
> >
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Ron Frazier wrote:
> >
> >  ...
> >> If you get DSL, which comes in on the phone line, along with telephone
> >> calls, you will need to get and place small filter devices on all
> >> telephone outlets which will or may contain telephones.  This keeps the
> >> data from interfering with your phone.  The DSL company may only provide
> >> a few of these, but they're not very expensive.  If you have a separate
> >> phone number and line for data and voice, the filters will not be
> >> necessary.  However, don't plug a phone into the data line.
> >  ...
>
>
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