Hey! I would like to filter my phone system as a whole as opposed to all the dongles about the house... I use a lot of wall phones and the wall plates cause the phones to abut into the room and the silly things fall off etc. ad nausium. So I have a centralized punchdown for my phone wiring and would like to filter the network there as opposed to at the jack. The dongles are small so I imagine it's simply a passive network Any ideas from the collective? (I have not taken a filter apart .... might be willing ) Thanks for the thoughts!
You can buy either filters built into a socket or a filtering master socket that will cover all phones connected to ordinary (unfiltered) sockets linked to it. That would mean running an unfiltered line to your modem socket if it's not near the master. See Solwise for a better explanation.
You can have your master socket changed so that it filters DSL at the source. Pretty simple and if you have a wireless router for your modem then just have the modem next to the socket. Works very well for me!
Thanks for the responces.... I've got really old wiring straight from the outside punchdown into my home punchdown. No RJ's from the main cable to my closet at all. Was basically hoping someone hacked the filter before to give me some idea as to the "notch" or pass filter components to use - without "reverse" engineering a dongle to get the r's and uf's I needed to build a master filter to drop in line after the DSL run for my other connections. Good solutions provided but it's an old neighborhood without the "grey box" drop attached outside the home like most any modern wiring I've seen. Literally the trunk to a punchdown network that feeds 10 homes (watched the tech wire up my second line several years back) straight into the house. Just a thought that a Bit-Tech'er might have been here before....
Dont bother messing around with reverse enginnering a dsl filter, most likely its just an inductor and a capacitor setup in a low-pass filter. I would just crack one open, and solder leads in place as needed. Then punch the leads down onto your block wherever you need them to be.
Done Deal Just posting the results: Success! The passive network is actually a small circuit comprised of two chokes and 3caps. The Chokes were 4pole but completely unmarked with the caps being small value electrolytics. As opposed to whipping up a circuit I just removed the Rj and souldered a pigtail on to it instead. As Kbot suggested above (Great minds think alike!) Had a few spare punch down lugs to terminate the filtered side to. In from the main to the DSL run & the filter's input as one lug. The output droped to the spare lugs and all but one run (out to the shop) punched down to the filtered lugs. Worked a champ and I'm dongle free and I'd swear it filters better but it's just likely the cobwebs in my ears form all the high joist work to reach the box! So if 'ya got a lotta wall hanging phones might be worth a try instead of buying a lot of hanging filters... Mod the Dongle! Thanks for the responces
i kinda did the same, but i didnt take the filter apart. i got it plugged into the main line coming in the house. it has 2 spots on the filter. one is for the modem, and the other is for the phone line. i just have the modem in my networking panel and a 110 punchdown block from leviton that has all of the phone lines in the house.
