Re: Do DSL filters wear out?

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:27:30 GMT, "CJ" <cjmartin04@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>My Verizon DSL connection has been acting very badly this past week. I've tested it twice and it's running between 79-80 kbps download and 62 kbps upload. The performance has been horrible from email to web browsing and especially downlaods. This is at 11:30 pm ET. I also tested it on Wednesday at like 7:30 pm ET and got the same results.
>I've heard that a bad DSL filter could be the cause of my problem. I've had these DSL filters for approximately a year. Do they wear out after about a year of use? I've got one because my phone line connects into the same outlet as my DSL modem.
>
>Also, in the past two years living in my building I've had people physically steal my phone line and cable line from where it enters my floor. They just took the whole line and plugged it into their apartment. Is it technically possible somebody could have figured out how to leech off my DSL? I do not have a wi-fi connection. I don't know if this means anything, but the "wireless" light is lit up on my DSL modem continuously now. The E1 light flickers every once in a while.


I'd start by going into the modem's setup and making sure that the
wireless (which it apparently has) is disabled. I'd next unplug my
phone and plug the dsl modem in direct to the phone line and see if
things improve.


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