Teksavvy Nightmare

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 01:58:58AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> That's what I expected when I got a VDSL2 connection last year.  But 
> that's not what happened when the tech arrived.
> 
> Instead, the splitter was installed in the room with the modem, way
> downstream of the demarc.  I have no idea why they sent a tech.  I
> don't know anything that he did that I couldn't do (and I'm not that
> handy).
> 
> I've got this little "Corning ADSL/VDSL POTS splitter", just like the
> picture, dangling on my desk.  And this annoying Cellpipe modem.

My splitter is in the garage right after the the cable enters the house
(the demarc point is outside the house).  It looks pretty similar to
that picture.

The cellpipe is not great, but mine seems to be fairly reliable (even
though when I talked to a teksayy support person reacently, that's not
the oinion he had of them.  Seems they prefer the sagecom instead,
which is all they now provide for new installs).

> I *still* need filters on all the other phones.  That was something
> that I thought I would no longer need.  In theory, that provide more
> points of failure.  Surely if the splitter had been installed at the
> demac, I would not need these filters.  But the tech would have either
> required me to move the modem to near the demac or would have needed
> to run a wire between the current modems position and the
> splitter-near-the-demarc, roughly the length of the house.

I don't need filters on the phones, probably because all my phone lines
are after the splitter in my case.  If your splitter is on one line in
one room, then yes you would need filters everywhere else.

> BTW, my provider is Telnet Communications.  They seem good but I have
> no way of comparing them with other providers. They don't offer TV and
> Bell won't deliver TV over a phoneline that a third-party ISP offers
> internet (doesn't affect me).  I don't know how their prices compare.
> They don't advertise unlimited "bandwidth" (bytes/month), but they
> seem to not have a cap.  I haven't tested this in any way.

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Len Sorensen
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