I should've explained perhaps, but didn't want to bore with the minutiae. I will be looking into getting the wiring checked, cause a sure fire way of getting a dropped connection is when the phone rings. But then (while I am still on the phone) everything comes back to normal (I mean pretty much 4.5 mbps dload speed and all) and yes everything is filtered up the wazoo. So I was hoping a piece of hardware I had laying around would be helpful.
Yes mitigate, as in: I know I have to have the wiring looked at and it does work 99% of the time to my needs, but how to improve with what I've got on hand, kinda thing, y'know
So not a matter of tweaking really, but reliability under a little less than ideal conditions.
From the other chimes so far, looks like what I am using is the best I can do right now..until wiring is inspected/fixed.
Waiting for those DSL2 tarriffs to come.
Thanks for the tip though.