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My little rinky dink hillbilly town just made DSL available to us...we HAVE to do our own wiring all the way out to the box on the side of our house where the phone is hooked up. I dont have a clue what to buy to have it ready...please if one of yall know and have time tell me....If not, tell me where to ask....PLEASE.

I do know they want an extra 2 feet of wire left outside by the box. Is this wire to be just regular phone wire...or the CAT 5 wire. Does that wire just come inside the house and wire to a regular sized normal phone jack, where I will then use standard phone wires to connect from the phone jack to the DSL modem, then using CAT 5 CABLES from the modem to the computers I am connecting??

Although I am, by no means, an electrician, I have wired my own phone jacks, just using normal phone wires, so I do know how to do this part.....I just am befuddled as to what kind of wires I use, and whether or not those wires hook to just a normal sized phone jack.

Any and all help will be appreciated more than I can say.

 

I have DSL through my phone lines - it uses the regular telephone wires that carry your telephone signal. The DSL uses a higher frequency, which is why you can use the DSL and your phones at the same time. I didn't need anyone to come to my house. AT&T sent me a kit with the DSL modem and 5 filters, and at a certain date "turned" on my DSL service. The only set-up I needed to do was plugging in the filters to all the jacks I had phones connected to. I guess if you don't put a filter between your phones and the jacks it will interfere with the telephone service.

The filters have the standard telephone connectors - your DSL modem will plug into one of the filters via a normal telephone wire, then your computer will plug into the modem using the RJ-45 wire. Most modems only allow one connection, but you can get a router pretty cheap and plug in more if needed. I actually reccommend using a router even if you only have one computer, as most modern routers serve as a "hardware" firewall between the internet and your computer.

I have no idea why they would want "extra" wire left out by the box . . . the DSL in your area must be different in some way. I'd imagine that any wire that they need to have at the box should be regular telephone wire - I would hope they would tell you if it were something else. Perhaps there is a piece of equipment that must be installed in your telephone box.