phone line/dsl

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phone line/dsl

February 26, 2005, 06:24:31 PM

Arent dsl and your phone line pretty much connected? My phone has just shut off or something, but I am still on the internet? I know that there inst a phone off of the hook and the neighbors have a phone as well.

Re: phone line/dsl

Reply #1 – February 26, 2005, 06:31:19 PM

as a dsl provider i can answer your question... dsl travels the same line as your fone does... you CAN shut off the telephone service....yet still have internet access on dsl. any other questions let me know. hope this helps

Re: phone line/dsl

Reply #2 – February 26, 2005, 06:34:35 PM

HUmM now thats a new problem to code with your local RBOC

"CUST NDT has INT"

customer no dial tone, has internet

Your phone line coming from the phone office multiplex's two frequency's on your existing two wires you have.

one frequency is the human voice range (buttstuffog)
one is the frequency of your internet(arrives to you in buttstuffog then is converted to digital by your modem
these signals are running at the same time but one lags the other by a specific time or in some instances in rual areas by as much as a whole phase.

there is a device installed at your box or NID that separates the two signals and one will be to your phone while the other will be to your internet. This device is usually called the pots splitter .

If for some reason your household only has chordless phones,, its possible that you have no dialtone but still have internet. Some chordless phones will interupt the dialtone of a "ambilical -pluged in to the wall type" regular phone until you unplug the charger from the wall.

Id say you have a chordless phone somewhere hosed up.

try dialtone at your network interface device (grey box outside)NID.

if its not there,, its the RBOC's problem, not yours.

Re: phone line/dsl

Reply #3 – February 26, 2005, 06:50:23 PM

One day I get a call at work from my wife (on her Cell Phone), we dont have phone but the internet works. It turned out that one of those little filters that plug into the phone jack was out.

The way ours is set up with DSL, is that all the jacks are DSL, and you have to use the filter for it to work as normal phone. One of them could cause your problem. Ours is an older phone system, so this is how its set up.

Bob Myers

Re: phone line/dsl

Reply #4 – February 26, 2005, 06:53:08 PM

I worked for an internet service provider for a couple of weeks, so I am not stupid when it comes to these sorts of things. But you have to take into account that I am just some dumb *almost* 18 year old punk kid. I still cant figure out why it isnt working, and I have to set up a ride for a party. It is offically one of my best freinds last days in utah, so I really have to go.

Re: phone line/dsl

Reply #5 – February 26, 2005, 09:04:36 PM

well it fixed itself so yeah. Thanks anyways alll