DSL network

yagga

My friend just ditched his dial up for a much better/hardly better 256k internet. He just got his dsl package and it came with 3 phone isolators. I never knew about these things, do you always have to plug these into the phones in the house/line? He also a got splitter plug to put in his phone jack, on the spliiter it reads "phone" for 1 split, "dsl" for the 2nd split, and "dslX" for the third split, anyone know what this means? (the two different dsl ones). No instructions tell what each means.

Hehe, he's still got m$n, I can still block his sign in with a sneaky program, hehe... muwahahaha... hehe... :jelly: :jelly: :bringit: :bringit:

One more question, do they limit the speed only from the isp office or whereever, or could the router/something in the package limit his speed?

rapture

I'm not sure how they limit speeds in the US, in the UK its usually done by the telco wich provides the line.

I'm not sure what the isolators are either, but the splitters are filters to stop the DSL from interfering with voice calls. They also have the added bonus of making sure the connection doesnt drop out every time the phone rings.

Everything on the line could do with a filtering, things to watch out for are faxes and modems in other devices like cable or satelite boxes which need to dial home from time to time.

kryyst

I'm pretty sure it's all phone line filters so that your dsl line doesn't interupt your voice line. I got the same thing when I got my DSL stuff. Plug them into the jack then the voice phone lines into them and that should make everything work.