On 2020-10-09 10:00 a.m., Scott Allen via talk wrote:
On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 at 09:35, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
When I got VDSL2 installed, they put a splitter where it entered the house and ran one wire to the modem and the rest of the phone jacks in the house to the filtered side.
The same for my mother's house, when recently upgraded from 6/1 to 15/10 speeds. (Although, I ran the separate wire for the modem myself in anticipation of the upgrade.)
In my upgrade to VDSL2 at 15/10, Bell supplied an integrated splitter with an internal filter (marked "Comtest networks VDSL/2+"). I had terrible line quality and complained to teksavvy. Teksavvy got Bell involved who, promptly: - discovered I was missing "termination impedance's" at the DSLAM (red herring), - decided my cable was old, and replaced it (nope), - left my home one time without connecting my phone line to anything (after telling me he had fixed the problem and tested it!), - had 3 different Bell techs and two teksavvy techs at different times, - played games at the DSLAM adjusting my service profile. The last Bell guy was a pro and followed my DSL down the street to a broken overhead pod, where my cable was exposed to the elements! He fixed that and VDSL has been rock solid ever since. -- Michael Galea