DSL Filters

Want to relocate my DSL from one room to another. Can you just buy DSL filters and plug them in and make it work or do I need hard wire a connection into that room?

 

In the old days, an install tech would be sent out and a whole-house filter would be installed outside your house. A dedicated, unfiltered line would then be run to your PC. These days, to lower costs and be more competitive, a self-install kit is typically sent out that includes filters to be placed at each jack where a phone is to be used, since the DSL signal appears at every jack-- you simply don't filter the one you plug the DSL modem into.

 

Well the room my office is currently in, the guy installed a biscuit off the phone jack that was there. I know the put something in the box outside but who knows, and it was years ago. Do I have to buy enough of these for the house or just the rooms where there is DSL and/or a phone?

 

You should have to put filters just on the jacks that are in use. I did the DSL thing about three years ago and changed the location of my computer, and it worked just fine.

 

I work for a company that provides dsl and the above is true. If you don't have a single filtered line (ie whats called a nid filture) then you should just be able to move it. If you have a nid filture, (which your isp probably has records of) then no it won't work. The other way to tell if you have a nid filture is do any of the phones in the house have filtures or just the dsl modem. If the other phones require filtures then you probably don't have a nid filture. Hope this helps!