[Gllug] Multiple ADSL splitters

[Russell Howe]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:28:26PM +0000, Matthew King wrote:
> Gundemarie Scholz <spamyousilly at inbox.ru> writes:
> 
> > Matthew King wrote:
> >> At a previous place of employment we have used this:
> >> 
> >>       ___                   ___
> >> \    |   |                 |   |
> >>  \   | F |-ADSL-(nothing)  | F |-ADSL--Modem--LAN
> >> BT|--| L |                 | L |
> >>  /   | T |-POTS------------| T |-POTS--Telephone extensions
> >> /    |_R_|                 |_R_|
> >> 
> >> The above setup worked fine (except that BT came from a crappy reseller
> >> who kept crossing lines in their equipment).
> >
> > Are you really sure it worked like this? The above setup should prevent
> > any frequencies used for ADSL to arrive on the POTS port of the first
> > splitter so they should not even arrive at the second splitter.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> The fact that it did coupled with the fact that it shouldn't is what
> has thrown me.

Perhaps the 1st filter wasn't very good, and let some of the ADSL signal
thorugh?

Did you get ringing on the POTS side of that first splitter if you just
plugged a phone in when the ADSL was active?

-- 
Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
rhowe at siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug