two port ADSL splitter fitter

jaxy999

Basically, I got my eircom modem today to install broadband. However once installed bb, it worked for 2min then "crashed" & I kept getting a msg saying trying to locate WAN setting so called eircom who suggested I plug the lead from the modem into the telephone jack rather than thru the two port adsl splitter fitter in a 2nd phone jack beside the PC specifically for the pc, (main telephone jack is around the corner, in another room) BB working perfect when not using splitter. So Mr eircom says it a faulty splitter & is going to post out another one. Has anyone experienced this before? I'm currently hovering between the sitting room & hallway and I have no working landline for the moment. Hopefully my posting can be interpreted properly

Random

I had some trouble before and it was a faulty splitter .. got 3 duds in a row - it's entirely possible.

Would suggest you pop into Maplins, 3G, Atlantic Homecare, Harvey Normans, Currys or whatever and buy a filter there for a tenner rather than waiting for it to be posted out.

PogMoThoin

Its not really a splitter, its a filter

Think You can get them in argos

exaisle

The "splitter/filter" type you mention is very brittle and they tend to fail easily.

What you can do instead is get a Master Socket Faceplate Splitter which will give you one output for phone and one for BB. It plugs directly onto the Eircom master socket.

Next time you see an Eircom van in your area, ask them for one.

E.

watty

Also there are actual "Splitters". They don't work for ADSL at all, only phones.

Fuzzy Clam

Also there are actual "Splitters" that work with both ADSL and phone.

watty

No, those are Diplex filters. Not splitters.

Phone port gets below 3.5KHz and and ADSL port gets above 20KHz (approximately).
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/12010


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Fuzzy Clam

It's still a splitter. You split the line and ,in the case of the Excelsus Z-230tj splitter, its filtered on one side only.
To quote from the site you have linked to

"Also, filters installed at the NID are referred to as splitters, as they filter out the DSL signals from the wires split off of the main phone line."

watty

Lies for Children I'm afraid. A real splitter has no filtering. Something that SEPARATES DSL and Voice isn't splitting at all. It's filtering.

I'm being a bit pedantic. I'll go and lie down with a bowl of cornflakes.

Fuzzy Clam

And i thought I was the pedant.

I'll stick with my Shreddies ;-)