[ale] [OT]: dsl splitter?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 11:13 -0500, Mike Murphy wrote:
> its the divide that you can put at the heart of your phone network that 
> splits DSL from voice (thus eliminating filters on all your phones). Its 
> preferred, even required, when you're telco setup includes an alarm.
> 
> http://www.homephonewiring.com/dsl.html
> 
> I've been cruising along with filters on all my lines for a while now, 
> but the alarm has quit working (and I've got high noise on my line), so 
> I'm working to fix this the "right way".

OK. I know what you'r talking about now. It a grey box with some "magic"
inside. Bellsouth installed one on my first DSL line.

In all actuality, there is no magic in it. All it does is take a
standard POTS line, mechanically split it into two POTS lines and filter
one of them.

Graybar has them for about $65. A single pancake box, a 2 line phone
splitter an a basic DSL filter will do the same thing.

Take the incomming POTS line and connect inside the pancake both to
provide line 1 AND line 2. In the RJ11 jack, insert the 2 line splitter.
Into line one jack, put the DSL filter. This costs about $10.

For the "How do I wire this?" crowd, the tip side of the POTS line
connect to both the red and yellow  screw in the panacake box. The ring
wire goes on the green and black connectors. If the POTS line is color-
coded, the tip wire will be red or blue/white or orange/white or yellow.
The ring will be green, black, blue or orange. 

Or if your house has old wiring (pre-1985) all of wires are black and
you have to a polarity detector or look at how the system is wired up
already.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> > Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> >> Mike Murphy wrote:
> >>
> >>> Does anyone know where I can pick up a dsl splitter (as destinct from 
> >>> a DSL filter, which I have plenty of)? My first thought was Fry's but 
> >>> I'd rather save myself the drive from the inner ghetto to outer 
> >>> mongolia, as well as the usual $300+ credit card charge I incur every 
> >>> time I walk in there.
> >>>
> >>> I'm specifically looking for an indoor splitter (one that will fit 
> >>> standardized home networking centers would be nice) which has modular 
> >>> *and* screw terminal connectors. One that just has modular connectors 
> >>> would be ok too, I guess.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Okay, so clue me in.  What is a dsl splitter and what does it do?  I 
> >> assume it enables you to send the dsl signal to two dsl devices, 
> >> therefore having effectively two dsl connections?  I don't know enough 
> >> about the technology to see how this could possibly work.
> >>
> >> Ignorant minds want to know (more)!
> >>
> > I too am curious about this DSL splitter.  I thought a DSL spliter would 
> > amount to a switch.  I am fairly certain that you can only have on dsl 
> > modem per phone line.
> > 
> > Calvin...
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