DSL Issues And Solutions
For some time, we’ve had an issue with our DSL. When the phone rang, the DSL would drop and reconnect. It was one of those things that happened only on the occasion of a ringing phone, so it was no big deal. Our phone doesn’t ring all that much, which pleases me greatly.
Yesterday, though, the phone rang at an inopportune moment and my WIFE was the one inconvenienced by the DSL drop that ensued. When I’m inconvenienced by such trivial things, it’s one thing, but when SHE is inconvenienced, I’m more likely to act. I’m strange that way.
At any rate, a quick search on Google turned up similar situations. The cause, they said, was usually a phone on an unfiltered line. A quick check showed that the most recently added phone in the house had managed to be installed with no filter. That’s odd, because the phone it replaced WAS filtered, but it managed to happen nonetheless. I popped a filter on the line, and things are running great.
Things are actually MUCH better than before. Bittorrent speeds for one file, before the filter was installed, ranged as high as 80kB/s. I currently have two downloads running at over 150kB/s and have seen one or the other go over 200kB/s. I’d say things are running a bit faster than before, and I like it.
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