broadband splitter anomaly

Hi
I have been having trouble with my sky broadband connection for many
months now. I have rung customer support scores of times without a
successful outcome.

Then a couple of day ago my daughter moved the router to a different
phone socket and plugged it in without the splitter.

She then when on the Internet with her laptop and it fair zoomed
along, much quicker than before. Another 2 laptops were connected and
all 3 had great connection speeds.

I couldn't believe the speed difference which was maintained all
evening - AND the telephone worked too!!

I then reconnected the router to my desktop the next day with NO
SPLITTER and have been getting a great broadband speed/connection ever
since- AND the telephone works too!!

Has anyone else come across this phenomenon ?--
Martin
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<Martin ©¿©¬ @nohere.net> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
> I have been having trouble with my sky broadband connection for many
> months now. I have rung customer support scores of times without a
> successful outcome.
>
> Then a couple of day ago my daughter moved the router to a different
> phone socket and plugged it in without the splitter.
>
> She then when on the Internet with her laptop and it fair zoomed
> along, much quicker than before. Another 2 laptops were connected and
> all 3 had great connection speeds.
>
> I couldn't believe the speed difference which was maintained all
> evening - AND the telephone worked too!!
>
> I then reconnected the router to my desktop the next day with NO
> SPLITTER and have been getting a great broadband speed/connection ever
> since- AND the telephone works too!!
>
> Has anyone else come across this phenomenon ?--
> Martin
> ©¿©¬

Actually a router connected to a phone socket that is not
serving a phone etc. as well does not require a filter. The BT line
on pins 2&5 is wired directly to the middle two pins of the RJ11 ADSL
socket so the filter does absolutely nothing except act as a BT-RJ11 converter

A phone socket that is serving a phone etc., but not a router does
require a filter. In both these examples I have avoided the word splitter
because nothing is split.

If you are comparatively close to the exchange you might be able to take
liberties with filters (or the lack of them) and get away with reasonable speeds and reliability,
I however always advocate doing the job properly with a single central face-plate
filter.

The very fact that your router gets grossly different results in different sockets
indicates something is amiss, in your original configuration, did all the other
sockets that had phones etc. attached have filters too?

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:15:25 -0000, "Graham." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>The very fact that your router gets grossly different results in different sockets
>indicates something is amiss, in your original configuration, did all the other
>sockets that had phones etc. attached have filters too?

Thanks Graham
All 3 sockets had filters attached
1 for the permanent phone socket
1 for the router
1 in the hall for phone & router when needed

The only one with a filter NOW is the permanent phone socket
--
Martin
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>
>
><Martin ©¿©¬ @nohere.net> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi
>> I have been having trouble with my sky broadband connection for many
>> months now. I have rung customer support scores of times without a
>> successful outcome.
>>
>> Then a couple of day ago my daughter moved the router to a different
>> phone socket and plugged it in without the splitter.
>>
>> She then when on the Internet with her laptop and it fair zoomed
>> along, much quicker than before. Another 2 laptops were connected and
>> all 3 had great connection speeds.
>>
>> I couldn't believe the speed difference which was maintained all
>> evening - AND the telephone worked too!!
>>
>> I then reconnected the router to my desktop the next day with NO
>> SPLITTER and have been getting a great broadband speed/connection ever
>> since- AND the telephone works too!!
>>
>> Has anyone else come across this phenomenon ?--
>> Martin
>> ©¿©¬
>
>Actually a router connected to a phone socket that is not
>serving a phone etc. as well does not require a filter. The BT line
>on pins 2&5 is wired directly to the middle two pins of the RJ11 ADSL
>socket so the filter does absolutely nothing except act as a BT-RJ11 converter
>
>A phone socket that is serving a phone etc., but not a router does
>require a filter. In both these examples I have avoided the word splitter
>because nothing is split.
>
>If you are comparatively close to the exchange you might be able to take
>liberties with filters (or the lack of them) and get away with reasonable speeds and reliability,
>I however always advocate doing the job properly with a single central face-plate
>filter.