On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:04:32 -0000, "pawhe"
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>As an aside - at work our ADSL presentation is what looks like a standard BT
>Master Phone Socket, but with an additional bit that has the ADSL socket on
>it, next to the phone socket. For home use, (and forgetting packages where
>BT/whoever install a modem or router), do BT still attend site and replace
>the master phone socket? Or do they simply send through/provide some form
>of "Y" cable for you to plug into the Phone socket that then presents the
>Phone and the ADSL? (and if so, could, I assume, be used at any extension
>point in the house?).
BT put the ADSL signal on the line along with voice and leave you to
keep it out of non-ADSL devices by protecting them with microfilters.
The faceplate splitter you describe presents a filtered (for phones)
line and an unfiltered (for ADSL modems) connection on a revised
faceplate, you can get these from weww.clarity.it and other suppliers.
A normal modem wil work over a line that carries ADSL, providing it
has a microfilter or is fed from a filtered conneciton.
You can choose to have ADSL go everywhere, and filter it out of
non-ADSL devices, or you can split it up as it enters and route the
adsl and the voice separately. The latter always seems better to me.
Phil
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