This comes from another thread; the subject is DSL:
On May 17, 2006 at 10:15, tschulte said...
3.) When I talked to the wife she said she didn't
want he dangling filters at every phone. I told
her we normally put one filter on the incoming
line in the enclosure. This way it filters the
whole house. The teleco tech says that can't be
done, because the little dangly filter isn't "big
enough" to filter the whole house. But his would
and it was only $85 plus $85 to put it in.
Great idea! I figured this out about a year ago, and use one filter on every house or office.
But does someone make a filter just for this purpose? The single-phone donglies, while they will work, have modular connectors and are made to be plugged into the wall. To use a dongly at the phone blocks, I install three surface-mount jacks:
a) one comes from the incoming phone line and goes to the DSL modem
b) the second is for plugging in the dongly,
c) I then make a 3" long dual-male modular cable and install another jack for the filtered output.
The output of that last jack feeds the jacks in the house.
Does somebody make a DSL filter with screw terminals on it, and maybe a jack for modular wiring to the DSL modem? It wouldn't have to be terribly cheap to beat this setup because it can take 3/4 of an hour to wire up this mess. It looks hokey, too, but works like a champ.
