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![]() apologies in advance for this, but hey I took the plunge and ordered PIPEX 1mb this morning, but I'm a bit lost then it comes to connecting the thing when my modem finally arrives. My understanding is that I get 2 microfilters as standard, I'm not sure if this is enough: my set up at home: 1 main BT line, which has extension to a phone upstairs, which in turn has an extension to the room where the ADSL will live. How the hell do I configure this? So that's 3 phones, one line, 2 extensions. Anyone kind enough to show some seasonal greetings and help me out? many thanks in advance! Matt. |
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![]() "Matt Hicks" wrote in message ... My understanding is that I get 2 microfilters as standard, I'm not sure if this is enough: my set up at home: 1 main BT line, which has extension to a phone upstairs, which in turn has an extension to the room where the ADSL will live. How the hell do I configure this? So that's 3 phones, one line, 2 extensions. Anyone kind enough to show some seasonal greetings and help me out? Each telephone needs a filter. The modem signal should not be filtered. So it sounds like you need one more filter. Regards Sunil |
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![]() Matt Hicks wrote: apologies in advance for this, but hey I took the plunge and ordered PIPEX 1mb this morning, but I'm a bit lost then it comes to connecting the thing when my modem finally arrives. My understanding is that I get 2 microfilters as standard, I'm not sure if this is enough: my set up at home: 1 main BT line, which has extension to a phone upstairs, which in turn has an extension to the room where the ADSL will live. How the hell do I configure this? So that's 3 phones, one line, 2 extensions. Anyone kind enough to show some seasonal greetings and help me out? many thanks in advance! You have to filter each phone, so easiest to have 3 filters. Note that you have to filter things like sky boxes, faxes, alarms. You can have one filter filtering a number of devices if you can adjust the way the extensions plug into the main socket. Just make sure the ADSL connection is unfiltered. |
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![]() "Matt Hicks" wrote in message ... My understanding is that I get 2 microfilters as standard, I'm not sure if this is enough: my set up at home: 1 main BT line, which has extension to a phone upstairs, which in turn has an extension to the room where the ADSL will live. How the hell do I configure this? So that's 3 phones, one line, 2 extensions. You *might* (and probably will) need one microfilter for each telephone/fax/answering-machine/PC-modem/Alarm/etc. I say might because my ADSL line was configured by BT (I am also with Pipex) before the microfilters arrived. I found no noise on the line what so ever even with the PC performing a very large download via FTP. When the filters arrived a few days later I duly plugged them in between the phones and the sockets and guess what - nothing. I found no difference on my line whether the microfilters were fitted or not. But when I repeated this on the ADSL line at work, boy was there a big difference. So I guess whether you hear any noise or not depends on your line conditions. |
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![]() Hopelessly wrote: You *might* (and probably will) need one microfilter for each No might about it... ;-) telephone/fax/answering-machine/PC-modem/Alarm/etc. I say might because my ADSL line was configured by BT (I am also with Pipex) before the I assume by "configured by BT" you refer to the exchange end and you don't mean an engineer installed ADSL upgrade rather than a "wires only" one? If you do, then take note that the engineer will normally fit a "whole house" filter on the master socket that will filter all the extensions in one go hence no need for microfilters (although you would then need to plug the ADSL modem / router into the master socket. microfilters arrived. I found no noise on the line what so ever even with the PC performing a very large download via FTP. When the filters arrived a few days later I duly plugged them in between the phones and the sockets and guess what - nothing. The filter is not there to stop the ADSL signal from interfering with your phone - although if you have a phone that is affected by the signal (most are not) it will solve that problem as well. I found no difference on my line whether the microfilters were fitted or not. But when I repeated this on the ADSL line at work, boy was there a big difference. So I guess whether you hear any noise or not depends on your line conditions. The primary purpose of the filter is to prevent your phones from injecting any high frequency noise onto your line that could disrupt the ADSL signal. (Phones tend to produce bursts of high frequency noise when you pick up the receiver or hand up) You can usually show this by plugging a phone in without a filter and taking it on and off hook a few times. This will often cause loss of broadband connectivity for a few moments. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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