ADSL connection with Woody

[James Knott]

Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique) wrote:
> Le 20 Septembre 2003 17:30, dan braun a écrit :
> 
>>Hi There,
>>
>>Dumb question time.
>>Did you installed an adsl line filter on this phone?
> 
> 
> Hi Dan 
> 
> I did not mention that precisely it would appear dumb not to have put a 
> filter. You're right!
> 
> (The phone looks so nice, you know what it is. Couldn't wait to try it.)
> 
> More seriously, I believed that the filter was working to filter out the DSL 
> frequences from getting into your phone. I did not think that it worked in 
> the other way. And what in a phone could disrupt the line (especially when it 
> is just sitting here, off)?

That would depend on the electrical characterics of the phone, when on 
hook.  If there's something in the phone circuitry that shunts the ADSL 
signal, it will kill ADSL.  It could be something a simple as a 
capacitor across the line.


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