[VoIP] Strange happening with DSL service

[Dennis D Hock]

I agree with Don saounds like the filter is the prime suspect at this
point.  The Siecor and other whole house ones are designed a little better
I believe, although there was a discussion on the TCI list I think some
time ago about filters.

Good luck,

Dennis Hock

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To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches <voip at ckts.info>
From: Donald Froula <dfroula at sbcglobal.net>
Sent by: voip-bounces at ckts.info
Date: 07/07/2007 08:11AM
Subject: Re: [VoIP] Strange happening with DSL service

Jayson,

It could be your filter. The DSL installation kit I
received from SBC contained a bag of filters that were
designed to be installed at every phone jack in the
house. I originally tried using one of these as a
whole-house filter. It fried after a few weeks with
the same symptoms as yours. I finally purchased a
whole-house filter on Ebay. The one I purchased is
from Siecor. It has three sets of terminals: Tip/Ring
in, filtered Tip/Ring out for the phone lines in the
rest of the house, and unfiltered Tip/Ring out for the
DSL modem. It also has a filtered and unfiltered phone
jack on the fromt for testing. This has been
trouble-free for many years.

Is the dead jack you plugged the phone into before or
after the filter?

If before, no failure of the filter should cause the
problem. It's probably a bad connection at the jack.

If the jack is after the filter, it could well be the
filter.

Don


--- Jayson smith <ratguy at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>      This weekend, we've been listening to the
> annual men's Barbershop Harmony Society convention
> webcast. So it's going along nicely, and poof! the
> stream dies. No big deal, I'll just restart it. No
> dice. Reboot the router and computer, no dice.
> Finally I realize we've got no DSL, and for a very
> good reason. There's static on the line. That's
> strange. We sometimes get static after rain, but it
> hasn't rained here recently. Anyway, a couple of
> calls to the ringback circuit strangely takes care
> of the static problem, but still no DSL. So now
> we're stuck with dial-up, which is how I'm sending
> this message. I've tried all sorts of stuff with the
> modem and router, all to no avail. So finally this
> morning I get the bright idea to take a phone and
> plug it into the DSL jack. I plug the phone in, pick
> it up and... Nothing. No dialtone, no battery, just
> as if it wasn't plugged in. Further tests reveal,
> it's not the phone cord, it's not the phone. After
> all this frustration, I find out
>  the DSL jack has decided to go to that place in the
> sky where all good phone jacks which have lived full
> lives go. My question is, what would cause the jack
> to do this, just suddenly? Can something actually
> happen to the jack or its wires, just like that, or
> does something have to have gotten disconnected
> somehow? As far as I know, all the other jacks on
> that line work. Looks like we're stuck with dial-up
> until sometime next week. Man, being blind is
> sometimes a pain! If I could see, and knew halfway
> what I was doing, I'd go out to the box and see what
> was what. BTW, our line is the type where there's a
> DSL jack, then a DSL filter, behind which are all
> the other phone jacks. If the DSL filter got fried,
> that would do just the opposite, DSL service but no
> other phone service, right?
> Thanks for any help on this.
> Jayson
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