Phone wiring adsl woes

[SAS]

There's one main phone socket in my place. At the moment there is a line going from it into the frontroom, and from there it is split so another cable comes off it and enters the room next door where my adsl filter is connected with my phone/adsl.

The cabling looks worn and old and looking at the modem logs the router is losing connection briefly every so often. (or is the landline cutting the broadband off briefly as the filter is not plugged into the main phone socket?)

The only way around this I can see is if I use a filter plugged into the main socket. The phone line for the front room is plugged into it and I get an extention cable for the router to plug into the adsl part of the filter?

Something like this would do the trick?

Good idea or is there another way? :/

 

[Clown]

You don't have an ADSL splitter on your main socket?
I recently got one of these http://www.adslnation.com/products/xte2005.php
I believe you can put of them on your main socket, assuming it will fit, wire the extension into the back of it, and any phone line down the line won't need another splitter for the phone as it should already be filtered. If you don't want your ADSL wire coming such a long way to the main socket, you can just add another one on the socket you want.

It made my connection a bit more stable, partly due to tidying up the cabling, and partly because it's just better than that dongle microfilter thing that my dog always tries to eat.

 

[SheepCow]

The splitter should be within 3m of the master socket, move your router nearer the master

At my parents house there is a filter on the master, the phone base station plug into that (they have wireless phones so only 1 base unit with an actual connection). The ADSL plugs directly into the socket upstairs in my room that comes from god knows where - that works fine

Also every phone should be connected through a filter, either because they all go to the master and that is filtered, or because they all go back to a socket with a filter on it.

 

[inactionman]

You have to have a filter wherever you have a socket, else you have a chance of the ADSL signal blowing the phone up.

I'd suggest you get some standard 4 or 6 core telephone cable, and wire it up from the master socket to one of these in your front room:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=43835&criteria=ADSL&doy=27m8

Cable:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?TabID=1&ModuleNo=6222&doy=27m8 or similar, as the online stuff doesn't reflect what's available in store for once!

Built in microfilter, and it will look better. Then put some tape over the front of the master socket to make sure you don't use it.