How to Install Filters for DSL

When you have a DSL line installed in your home, apartment or office, the DSL provider will connect service to communicate over the standard telephone lines that will enable you to have high-speed Internet access. However, those signals are strong and can easily be confused by additional interference from traditional phone equipment, such as telephones, fax machines and modems. For your DSL line to work correctly, all other devices need to be connected to a DSL filter.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Locate the phone jack where your device is connected to the wall. Simply follow the line from the phone, modem or fax machine to the wall.

2. Unplug the phone wire from the wall jack. The plug will have a small tab on the top side that, when depressed, will release the plug from the wall jack.

3. Plug the DSL filter into the wall jack. The DSL filter will have a wire with a plug on the end that will fit into the wall jack.

4. Plug the wire you removed in Step 2 into the other side of the DSL filter. The DSL filter will have a jack like the wall jack on one side.

5. Repeat this process will all devices plugged into all phone lines in the building.

Tips & Warnings

• Be sure and check all rooms in your house, as any device plugged in anywhere in the system will cause interference to the DSL line, even if the device is not turned on.

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