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Re: [PLUG] T1 Connections..
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> uses the exact same pair of wires. my friend has that. i thought a
> little tap was required for each phone to filter out the dsl but i'm not
> sure. Laters
Every device on a DSL-enabled line that is *not* a DSL "modem" - i.e.,
phone, answering machine, fax, regular modem, etc - needs to have a filter
placed on it.
When I got my piece of crap Bell DSL service*, I got like a dozen filters as
part of the package deal.
* The DSL service itself is usually fine - I get great transfer speeds, on
the order of 620K on my 640K service. HOWEVER, it has a tendency to lose
connections (4 times in 22 days; my dial-up ISP didn't have that many
outages in 2 years!). 3 times the outages have been relatively short - 20
min or so. Once was like a whole day. No explanation/apology on Bell's part.
(You're zooming along fine. All of a sudden - no activity on the line. You
try to ping or traceroute; nothing happens. No return packets from the
traceroute at all; "Unknown host" messages on the ping. 15 minutes later -
everything is back as it should be)
Truly annoying, in the middle of a large download.
Pretty shitty infrastructure Bell has, if you ask me.
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