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Re: [Services] DSL Dry loop signal through patch panel??

said by fatmanskinny See Profile :

Will the phone company more than likely have an RJ11 jack at the demarc (where their work terminates) and our vendor will simply extend it from there OR will it more than likely be punched to a wiring block in the demarc, for which the wiring vendor will bring it to our floor and into the office terminating at an RJ11 port on the wall?
Termination at Demarc is not an RJ-11 jack it is a pair of terminals to terminate Customer Provided Equipment (CPE). Typically for residential customer's this is a set of screw terminals, for commercial building's it is punch down block.

RJ-11 jack is used as a test port for residential customer's but that is not the means to terminate inside wiring.

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Re: [Services] DSL Dry loop signal through patch panel??

Got it. So ultimately, our wiring vendor has to bring it from the demarc to an RJ11 in our room.

If I am not mistaken, that is how our fax line was brought on the floor, so to speak. It was ran from the demarc point (1st floor) to the second floor and then the wiring vendor "patched" it into a phone jack out on the floor.

It makes sense now. Tom, thanks for hanging in there with me. This was a brain stretcher and I now realize you cannot limit yourself to computers when in IT because stuff like this require some telecom knowledge.
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3 edits		 Just a quick update: all went well.

AT&T brought the line in to our demarc location on the first floor. Then our wiring vendor ran it from there to our office on the second floor and installed an RJ11 plate on our wall so we could plug in the modem.

At first, when the wiring company finished, we were not getting a DSL signal. Then, he said he will try and put the wires "directly on top of AT&T's wiring." Then we were getting DSL sync lights.

On a 6MB / 512k Biz line, we are getting 5 1/2 MB / 414k up. I think that is very good.

We have 5 static IPs if we need them but right now, have the Netopia 3347W configured for wireless access without broadcasting the SSID in addition to locking it down to only see our two wireless MAC addresses.

Also, we have the internal firewall turned on along with the router doing DHCP. In addition, all software firewalls on our two laptops have been turned on as well. Overload??

Man, those business routers are quite a bit harder to configure but we got through it with AT&T's help.

Thanks everyone for your feedback.
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Re: [Services] DSL Dry loop signal through patch panel??

Glad everything turned out OK.

said by fatmanskinny See Profile :

wireless access without broadcasting the SSID in addition to locking it down to only see our two wireless MAC addresses.
Neither of those precautions are very effective from a security perspective. Hopefully you are using some form of WPA to protect your Wireless network.

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Re: [Services] DSL Dry loop signal through patch panel??

We enabled WPA on the router. I forgot to add that.
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