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Nicole -> I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 4:13:28)

I'm putting the router and cords togather in preparation for being reconnected to Broadband this week, and I can't find my phone line splitter. I have unpacked everything but it's just not here. I'm not about to ask if anyone knows where I put it, but I am wondering if they're an absolute necessity or just advisable?




Kitka -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 5:24:13)

Hi Nicole,

A splitter is usually a filter as well, and yes you do need one for every phone or fax or anything besides the router that is plugged in to the phone line. If you don't have one, you can have problems with interference on the line.

If you can't find your old one, you should be able to buy one pretty easily and cheaply - Dick Smith, Tandy and even K-Mart I think stock them nowadays for approx $12. I believe I have even seen them in some larger Woolies and Coles supermarkets too.



Nicole -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 5:29:16)

Thanks Kitka,

I wasn't planning a trip up the coast until a few weeks time, none of those stores are located very close to here. There are surprisingly 2 computer stores here though, might try them first as I'm trying to make contact with as meny locals and local businesses as I can.

I'm just really annoyed as it wasn't even used at the last place I lived. So it was packed into a box when I left the place before and now it's simply not there.

Thanks again

Nicole



jaybee -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 5:42:54)

Have you looked under the sofa?



Kitka -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 5:43:46)

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So it was packed into a box when I left the place before and now it's simply not there.


I know exactly what that feels like - very annoying.

If you have any choice in the matter, try to get a C10 brand filter. They are much better than the el cheapo no-name varieties.



Nicole -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 5:47:34)

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ORIGINAL: jaybee

Have you looked under the sofa?


That is just so funny Jaybee! I actually sold the sofa to the guy who bought that house because it wouldn't fit in this apartment! Anyway, it wasn't under it because it wasn't even unpacked at the last place. I also cleaned under that sofa before leaving.

Kitka, thanks, I'll ask for one of them.



dpf -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 9:43:59)

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Have you looked under the sofa?
while you look, keep an eye out for my car keys please. is your broadband dsl? if so, each devise needs a filter on it.



womble -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 12:04:48)

...and if you find my rechargeable battery charger as well, let me know. I spent half the morning looking for it (never did find it), and then the other half of the morning trying to tidy up my office because it's a tip and I can never find anything *sigh*

I do however seem to have accumulated a large supply of ethernet cables, PS/2 to USB adapters, and some sort of strange something-to-USB cable I've never seen before, along with various wires and cables I didn't know I'd got, and the instruction manual and software CD for my router which went missing 6 months ago.

On the positive side, it's forced me to tidy up, and now Diva's house (aka the bit under my desk), rather than cables and card readers and CD-ROMs falling out every time I open the doors of the desk, is now nice and neat and tidy, with all the cables and stuff in one of the storage boxes I got recently, stashed neatly away under the printer, with all the CDs in a box as well, and Diva's had a dust and a hoover as well.

Still no sign of the battery charger though...[&:]

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jaybee -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 15:07:19)

The USB and ? cable is probably a firewire or bluetooth that came with a camera or phone. They chuck in extra cables in case you want to get confused 6 months down the line.



Spooky -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 15:24:19)

Remember - you need filters on all used jacks, not just the computer
I gained an extra 2mbps by putting a filter on a (previously forgotten) sky digital phone jack



womble -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 16:26:42)

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ORIGINAL: jaybee

The USB and ? cable is probably a firewire or bluetooth that came with a camera or phone. They chuck in extra cables in case you want to get confused 6 months down the line.

This is where my new cunning plan comes in. As part of the "tidy office campaign" I have a nice little box that I'm storing cables, power cords and adapters and such like in, rather than leaving them in a heap at the side of the power extension. I also bought a pack of labels on strings from W H Smith's and as I use different ones and figure out what they're for, I put a little label on them, so next time I don't spend 10 minutes with a cable in each hand thinking, "Hmmm, now which one do I charge my mobile with?"

Back on microfilters/splitters, around the other side of my desk I have a rather untidy heap of ADSL microfilters. Due to where the plug is, router, and telephone jack, they have to live at the side of the desk. I'm probably just about up to the REN limit - there's the extension phone upstairs, computer (modem for broadband emergencies), an alarm unit, and fax - and of course for each device there's a microfilter.

It all just looks very untidy, which simply won't do in my new Web 2.0 tidy office! I spent part of this afternoon wandering around eBay and googling to see if there was some sort of microfilter hub(?) available - I'm imagining some sort of little box type thing with a row of holes on one side where all the devices plug into it, and on the other the little cords and RJ11 plugs that plug into the phone sockets. Obviously you'd still have wires, but it would be so much tidier than having the loads of little microfilters that sit there in a heap looking untidy. Unfortunately because of the layout of the room and the position of the phone point, hiding them behind the desk isn't an option.

Am I living in cloud cuckoo land (highly possible) or is there such a thing? (and if not I think some geeky OutFronter really ought to invent one [:D])



Kitka -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 16:33:52)

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ORIGINAL: womble

... googling to see if there was some sort of microfilter hub(?) available


What you probably need is a central splitter:

http://www.dynalink.com.au/products/ausfiltermfdsl004.htm

<edit>It is highly recommended there be no more than three filters attached to a single phone line. So if you already have a phone, extension phone, dialup modem, alarm unit, and fax machine - you really should have a central splitter anyway.</edit>



Nicole -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 16:40:24)

Dan - yes it's DSL Broadband.

Spooky, I only have one wall socxket for the phone, so are you saying I need a splitter on that line only? I have no choice other than to use phone extension cables unless I want the computer equipment in the kitchen. As the crow flies the computer is about 4 or 5 metres from the phone socket but as I've put the extensions around the walls it's probably about 8 metres in total.

Let me start again. From the phone walll socket I have an extension cable that brings the actual phone into the office. On the end of that cable I have a one into two line gadget which creates an outlet for the phone itself and an outlet for the computer's dial-up. When I'm connected to Broadband, that dial-up line will go to the router.

How many splitters will I need?



Kitka -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 16:48:21)

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How many splitters will I need?


One - for the phone.

But if you add a fax machine or any extension phones, each device will need its own filter.



Nicole -> RE: I can't find my splitter . . . (2/4/2007 16:54:52)

Well I will be configuring this fax at some stage in the near future so I probably should get two.

On another note, the last 2 places I've lived in were built in the 1980's and 1940's, this place in circa 1970. It's amazing the lack of forefight they had when putting the only phone socket in the kitchen, or in the last place, on the back verandah!

I wonder if they're building houses these days with television and phone sockets in every room?



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