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Recent content by noahbody
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Rewiring house
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Rewiring house
Yes, the sort of DSL filter I want to use is the one Syquest described. So I'll use diagram C. I'll use a 66 block for the CAT3 phone lines and a 110 block for the CAT5e data lines. The modem and router will be placed on the basement wall, near the blocks. The plan is for one network router to... -
Rewiring house
Mountainbear, So you're suggesting to use the same punchdown block for all the cabling, then using CAT3 to go to the phone jacks. And you say not to filter the data lines. In that case, I don't understand where to place the DSL filter. Wouldn't I have to get many DSL filters, and place them... -
Rewiring house
SYQUEST, I am using DSL now. I plug my phone and modem into the same phone jack through a phone splitter and they both work, no problem. The phone is plugged into a DSL filter which plugs into the jack. But I know the best way is to have separate jacks - ethernet for the computer and RJ-11 for... -
Rewiring house
So I think you're saying I should use completely separate blocks for the phone and data, even though one of the data jacks and one of the phone jacks will be on the same line. Or you might mean I should use a basic phone block and attach a data patch panel (data block) to it, and connect the... -
Rewiring house
I'm going to rewire my house starting next week and I have spent months planning it out, but am not positive I have planned it out correctly. So I have a few questions. If you click on the diagram it shows what my plan is. I'm going to attempt to wire the house using one line coming from the...
