Out of the Blue

Turns out I was the one that broke my net connection. Without giving the matter enough thought, I plugged in a modular phone cord without a splitter or a DSL filter, and this turned out to be the cause of my connectivity woes. Luckily I finally made the connection, and things returned to normal immediately.

Speaking of returns to normalcy, I believe we finally got the Tickle ad campaign removed (after a couple of failed attempts) after they slipped a decidedly non-work-safe image (bewbs) into one of their personals. Sorry about that.

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The telco here sends your house the data+phone signal by default and you just put filters onto each of your phones. Thats pretty simple IMO, and even if you use an unfiltered phone your not dead in the water.

It's simple to do (in theory), but a pain to maintain; doubly so if you have LOTS of phones.

I live in a house with others. Total, there are 5 of us in a big house. Because we don't like cordless, there are like 7+ phones in the house. We had some older people living there at one point, so they wanted a phone in every room in case of emergency. Now, we're all used to having them there.

Now, as someone else has stated, the filters stop working after a while. I don't know why, but they do. We've had to replace all of ours at some point because they stopped working. At one point, we even had to hunt down the broken one by tial-and-error.

Meanwhile, when we have guests or whatever, someone (either an occupany or guest) almost always disconnects a phone and reconnects it later, and 3 times out of 5 someone will forgot to put the filter back.

In any sense, it's sort of a pain to deal with. Splitting it once in the beginning (as someone else already mentioned) is a much nicer way to handle it. If I wasn't bogged down with 3 other home improvement projects, I'd go into the attic and do it myself. I guess I'll worry about it next year.



"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
-Fry, Futurmama
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"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
-Fry, Futurama
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