Using a DSL filter with 2 phones?

[LuDaCriS66]

I'm just one filter short here at my house and at the moment, I've got two phones connected to one filter using a 2 line splitter. Would that work okay? Not that i'm experiencing any problems.. but there IS a single second at which I pick up the phone before I would hear the dial tone.

 

[bacillus]

as long as both phones are filtered, which they are according to you, then you'd be fine!

 

[Lord Evermore]

All that matters is that all phones be connected to a filtered line, and the DSL modem be connected to a non-filtered line. The reason you normally connect each phone to a different filter is that you normally have them on different jacks, and the jacks split from each other before a filter. If you have too many phones (you're only supposed to use 5 filters, but presumably each filter can use a splitter safely) then the DSL provider installs a filter at the NID where the phone lines come in. This filter is like a combination splitter and filter. One line gets passed straight through to the line that the DSL is connected to, the other gets passed through a filter and then connects to the lines carrying the phones. With this you can have any number of phones, so it's pretty much the same as just having a splitter plugged into a filter.

If you're running out of filters, then most likely you are exceeding the specs and should have a splitter at the NID. Using a splitter does get around that but it means having wires running around the place.

I dunno about the pause when you pick up the phone. Does it happen on any of the phones connected to other filters? Does that same phone have a pause when connected to other jacks?

 

[boyz]

It's does not matter as longs as you filter the noise out from the line, however you can purchase filters, i got at least 12 of them kicking around the house maybe you could buy them off of ebay.

 

[bacillus]

i got at least 12 of them kicking around the house

hmm, why did you purchase so many??

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Alright cool. That's all I needed to know cuz everything is workin fine
I've actually got the DSL modem and the 2 phones workin off the single jack using a splitter... and then another splitter on the filter for the 2 phones.. so it's all weird. lol

 

[DannyBoy]

I had my main line connected directly to 1 single filter except for the line to my computer, which i ran all the phones in the house off of.

I then had a filter for my adsl modem. Everything worked fine, except BT exprienced problems on their end and I ended up wasting my time and going back to cable.

 

[boyz]

I have so many filter because they phone company give me them without asking questions.

 

[boyz]

Bacillus I bet you got no life to be a lifer, you waste your time to reply to every post so you can be at the top of the list.

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: boyz
Bacillus I bet you got no life to be a lifer, you waste your time to reply to every post so you can be at the top of the list.

*Cough*

Now where did that come from?

Was that REALLY necessary?

 

[boyz]

I know, just being mean