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    Broadband Cabling Help

    I'm sure there is an easy fix for this but im stuck...

    My neighbour has an extension to his office with just a line coming out which did plug straight into his old dial up modem. However this cable wont work in the broadband modem due to it being connected to a standard phone line and not the adsl part, can this line be converted to allow a Adsl modem to work there without a new line being put in?

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    If the extension line is connected to the main phone line then all you need is a microfilter on the socket and you can plug the ADSL modem in fine
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    Move the microfilter to the end of the extension line

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    It isnt that simple. The extension is just a line not a new box at the other end. The line has a modem cable end and this needs to be plugged into the filter somehow. It is quite hard to explain.

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    So presumably the line terminates in an RJ11 plug, like:

    So what you need is an RJ11 socket to BT socket converter (i.e. socket each side). I think you're on a sticky wicket; there's lots of "plug to socket" converters, but socket-to-socket is a bit of a rary.

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    Correct that is exactly what I need, or perhaps the rj11 to a BT female socket would do so i could plug the filter in.
    If not does anyone have a suggestion?


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    But you will still need a micro filter mate, in fact every extension thats in use needs one. Broadband speed can suffer and the connection can be wery intermittant without them.

    Although, having re-read your post, is it a seperate telephone line? Does he have 2 phone lines in the property? If so then he won't be able to use an adsl modem on it unless the service is active on that line.
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    ADSL filters only cut off analog frequencies that creep into the ADSL frequency ranges, so plugging in 1 filter into the PSTN box and running extensions off it is all that's needed to filter voice in all the house, if that's a feasable way of dealing with it, it's more ideal.

    If you plug filters into all the extensions while running them off an already filtered line you're filtering nothing again.
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