Hello Alan, At first reading, your reply only dismayed me with the depth of my ignorance. However, now I think the content and what I have only so far skimmed on the website, may well lighten my darkness and suggest a solution. Thank you very much, I will let you know how I get on in due course.
With best wishes, Jennifer On 20 May 2015 at 12:17, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jennifer > > The Google suggestion doesn’t sound right to me for your phone and > computer set up. > > Need to know more about your actual house cabling for phone and modem to > offer particular suggestions. Is there no noise from the cordless phone > (with filter) but noise from the extension phones? Do you have an ADSL 2+ > service? Does the wall socket filter include a splitter function? Is this > the first entry point from street cable? Do you have filter/splitters on > ALL of your wall sockets? Early users of ADSL probably used individual > filters that plugged into the phone sockets throughout the house . Later > on it was more usual to install the filter/splitter right at the street > cable entry point so the phone and modem connections were split right at > the source. Only one device to go wrong! > > Look at the website for the manufacturer of the filters (c10 > Communications) for an explanation of types and connections: > www.c10.com.au > > Filters do fail from time to time. Noise gradually gets worse. If you > have old filters for ADSL1 they probably were not manufactured for the > higher speed ADSL2+. I don't need filters on my service, but I used to > have identical filter/splitters at all of my wall sockets, but just the > socket nearest the computer actually used the modem outlet. > > Cheers > Alan > > > On 20 May 2015, at 11:28 am, Jennifer Lefroy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > We have a cordless phone base running from a wall mounted socket. It > has an ordinary in line filter. There seems to be a suggestion on Google > that a filter that actually clips over the wall plate might help in > lessening the background noise which occurs on it, on the second handset > and another standard phone extension connected to a phone extension > socket. Our router is connected to a different outlet in another room. > > > > Has anyone had a success with this method, please? > > > > Regards, > > Jennifer > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >
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