Hi Jennifer I commend you for asking the question - and for looking for a solution instead of just calling in a commercial repair technician. The advantage of WAMUG is that OSX ignoramuses (like me) can ask for help on basic (or difficult) things but can still usually get helpful advice from members with their wide collective experience.
Good luck with your research. Cheers Alan On 20 May 2015, at 4:38 pm, Jennifer Lefroy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > > -- 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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