Re: Phone use kills DSL connection, even with whole-house splitter
- From: "Frank" <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 06:35:26 -0600
"BillW50" <BillW50@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Frank" <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 05:53:29 -0600
> Did you test per my advice in your previous thread? This didn't sound
> like
> a "cheap splitter" problem to me, ever.
>
> -Frank
Since March 7th, this is your only post in this newsgroup. Either
that, or some of your posts isn't getting out to my server.
Cheers!
Something wrong with your server then.... see my previous 9/16/05 post,
cut-n-pasted below.
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"Frankster" <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Simplify your setup for testing. Disconnect all phones, disconnect all
> (any)
> DSL filter, test. If okay, connect one phone, test, if not okay, add
> individual DSL filter to that one phone, test again. etc.
>
> -Frank
>
> "Charles Wahl" <wahlONAYAMSPAYcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> We just got Earthlink DSL service, installed it myself in a closet
>> containing
>> Verizon NIB (in an apartment) served by UTP
>> our own Linksys router (wireless + 4 ports) for star-topology Cat5e home
>> network
>> Earthlink's Zyxel DSL modem
>> Phone bridged block to star-topology Cat3 phone wiring to all phones
>> Phone service is wired through the DSL/phone splitter dongle that
>> Earthlink provided, and thence to modem (one Cat5e cable), and all the
>> rest of the phones in the house (another Cat5e cable). Everything hooked
>> up and connected without a hitch,
>>
>> BUT:
>>
>> whenever the phone line is used (incoming or outgoing call) the DSL
>> connection (ACT and DSL lights on modem) craps out. Once call is
>> completed, the DSL light comes back on, but the router doesn't reliably
>> reestablish the connection automatically though it will sometimes.
>> Diagnostics performed at this point using Earthlink's Setup URL indicate
>> that PPPOe fails. Power cycling the router only works occasionally, but
>> the most reliable way to reestablish the connection is to power cycle
>> both
>> modem and router.
>>
>> I realize that I should probably have a more expensive whole-house
>> splitter, and I'm willing to buy one, but it surprises me that the DSL
>> service quits, while there's no noticeable static on the phone line. So
>> is
>> the fix that simple, or do I have some networking
>> hardware/software/protocol issue too?
>>
>> Note: I didn't buy Home Network service from Earthlink (comes with the
>> same router I had already, and costs another $8 per month). Is there
>> something in that package that I "need to have" for DSL sanity?
>> --
>> Charles Wahl
>> <remove uppercase letters in email address>
>
>
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