I scored some sweet items in the mail last night…a plethora of new music…new albums from Breaking Benjamin, Alice in Chains (nice!), Three Days Grace and Vertical Horizon. Let’s not forget the bootleg of the Toronto show put on by (best band ever?) Pearl Jam! Also, a nice collection of the first six issues of The Incredible Hulk! I have never read them before so it’s quite interesting to see how the Hulk came to be. Did you know that in the first issue, he was grey, but in subsequent issues he was made green because of problems with the printing press back in the 1960s?
Other than that, Vero made some great hamburger steak which I devoured and then I tackled a job that any drop-out of the Electronics Engineering program should be able to handle…telephone wiring! The scoop is that we ordered Acanac DSL Internet to replace the Rogers Internet we currently have (cheaper and no download/upload caps). However, the signal was never getting through. I called and asked for a technician but they never came so I decided to take a look at the wiring myself after Mike tipped me off that he remember that the Bell phone line was snipped by the Rogers technician many years ago.
Lo and behold, that was exactly the problem so I consulted the Internet on telephone wiring and spent the next few hours debugging the situation. This is where I may need your help.
In the end, I got the DSL line working. I also got the Rogers Home Phone line working. This is great! It all works from the terminal downstairs. However, when I go upstairs to the other phone jacks, the DSL line is not there…it’s the telephone line.
I have a feeling that I need a POTS splitter…one that splits the signal so that you can either have DATA or the PHONE. Any thoughts on this?
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Call me I can help you out.
Short answer, you want phone or data, you need to run another set of wires, and have one phone and one data, or swap them downstairs for each plug when you want to change them, back and forth.
If any plugs are using a common wire run to downstairs, all those plugs will need to be on the same service at any point in time.
If you plug them in together both data and telephone will probably fail.
M