Door buzzer and connection interrupt

[PCFetish]

I'm using ADSL
I live in an apartment and we have door buzzer hooked to my telephone
if someone pressed my number, my phone rings.
now this is getting really anoying cuz when ever some one buzz, phone rings and my interent connection gets completely blocked for the duration of buzzer.
is there anything I can do?

 

[Soybomb]

Pull the button off your buzzer? Lol seriously I've never run into that before, maybe someone knows of a filter that will work.

 

[chsh1ca]

Does it come in like a real call, or is it hard-wired to the line in the apartment? If the latter, it might be worth it to pick up another phone line.

 

[afzan]

Either your apartment building has to upgrade their enterphone system, or you can get a second line, and use get dsl on that line instead..

 

[bUnMaNGo]

or you have to somehow get your apartment manager to let your phone company install a line splitter in the phone box, so that one set of cables will go directly to the jack where the DSL modem is, and the other goes to the rest of the phone jacks in the apartment. This is what we had to have done by Verizon at several of our client's houses in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs- they had "sophisticated" alarm systems and doorbells hooked up to their phoneline, which interfered with the DSL.

 

[Oaf357]

bUnMaNGo has the best idea.

What I believe you're saying is that the "buzzer" is utilizing your phone line for connectivity in which case it's sending a voltage down the line to something that responds. Right?

You're screwed in getting around that (other than a splitter from the box itself).

 

[Lord Evermore]

Most DSL providers ask during the order if you have an alarm system or anything else running on the phone lines. A filter needs to be installed after the point that the DSL wire splits off, and before any other devices. This is usually done right at the phone box (or the NID on a single home). Most apartment managers should allow it, the DSL provider is a phone company after all and it's just a small box. However they'll need to either find a wire pair available that goes to your apartment (if there's a single Cat3 cable going up then they can connect the unused pair even though it won't be standard) or they'll have to run a new line which would be expensive and may not be allowed by the apartment company. It could also be technically installed anywhere along the wires as long as it goes in before the point that the buzzer connects.

Call Verizon and find out what you need to send them for permission (you have to have the apartment manager fill out a permission form) and schedule them to come look and attempt the modification. You may end up having to pay for it though, and they do charge quite a lot for the time.