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shedsounds
Jun 17, 2002, 12:54 PM
Getting Broadband, adsl next week, but getting different info re adsl filters.
What do you reckon kind people..

One phone line into house.
This is where a filter goes, that much I know!
One end to modem
other end will be a splitter - one end to a phone, other end into another room where it sits as a wall mounted box. Here it is split again, to sky box and a phone

Got all that LOL

Do I need another filter and if so where, have had so many contradictory advice... any help much appreciated

smurf2k
Jun 17, 2002, 01:13 PM
I take it you already have fone ext sockets in these rooms ?
If so when the engineer calls to install adsl he will just make the socket nearest your pc the master socket which when you see the face plate for the socket it will have one hole for the fone and another for the modem. At least this is how mine was done.
I had a blanked socket in the hallway. fone socket in the kitchen one in the backroom and one in the bedroom. The blank in the hallway was the master point (point of entry I think) and all the rest were ext sockets and all the engineer did was make the blank in the hallway an ext and the one in the backroom the master (its right behind my pc)

well thats the way it went for me

shedsounds
Jun 17, 2002, 01:28 PM
Cheers Smurf2k , Well its a wires only install so no bt muppet to call (sorry that based on my experiences so far LOL). As far as I can tell I only need to filter at the point of entry as one side will then go to modem and everything else int he house will effectively run off the other side of the filter but wish I could get a definitive answer

andyr
Jun 17, 2002, 07:11 PM
Just installed it myself - and what a damn difference it makes! After just 2 days, there is no way on earth I could ever return to 56k!

Anyways, all I did was place the splitter in the socket where the line enters the house and then ran a 10M extension lead (I got free with my dreamcast ages ago) from the adsl connector on the splitter, all the way upstairs to my room and to the adsl modem. The modem then connects to my USB port and is currently supplying a broadband connection to my 2 computers which are networked and have internet sharing installed (Win 98se and Win XP pro)

I've placed a normal phone socket doubler on the phone connector of the splitter to run the normal phone and have my satellite digibox connected.

Everything works perfectly and I regularly get downloads of 56 - 60 kbps

Hope this is of help to you.

shedsounds
Jun 17, 2002, 08:01 PM
That sounds like the voice of experience ina scenario thta matches mine, top marks Andyr, nice one and thanks...