[ale] Better ISP?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 10:31:20 EST 2011


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

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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