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Re: Cat5/Cat6...... Phone/DSL install I give an update later on this. I'm at work so not a lot of time to explain. |
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| Ok guys,here's the deal.
I get a phone call this morning from ATT asking about the service call for this morning.The guy asked if I actually needed an inside and outside tech or just the outside tech. I told him that I just needed an outside tech,so he cancelled the inside tech and told me that the other tech would be here sometime today. I had hoped that I would be here when he came,but I had to go to work.
Around 12:30 I have a voice message from a number that looked familiar. I call the number back and when the guy answers I realize that is is one of the techs that I had dealt with when I was at the old house. He says that he sees all the problems that I have been going through and that he was going to take care of it for me. AWESOME!!!!! Like I said I have dealt with him before and I had no doubt that it would be done now.He had already put up the NID when he called me. He also ran new wire for my drop and I didn't even ask for it. He run a new ground also which can be seen in the pictures.
He checked my speeds and said that they were looking excellent and he said that he was actually pulling 6.6mbps on the new drop. I have been told that I was able to get 6.0mbps,so that confirms it.
So in one hour he installed the new NID and run a new drop from the pole to the house and the others couldn't do a simple NID install. He told me that the next time I need something to call him first. I have his number in my phone and his ATT tech ID# so I can request him personally.
He asked if I had a DSL filter and I said yes,so I put it in when I got home,but I'm not sure If I need it,it looks like it has one already. It's not hooked up yet. You can see it in the picture.Let me know if you think I should.
So,here's the pics. |
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| That is great news. Glad you finally got it resolved.
So now you have a weekend project to install an inside drop to the DSL modem from the POTS Splitter and hopefully should be all set.
I'd save the modem stats you posted for reference. That way if DSL degrades you have a benchmark for what it should be.
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said by Gigabyte2004:He asked if I had a DSL filter and I said yes,so I put it in when I got home,but I'm not sure If I need it,it looks like it has one already. It's not hooked up yet. You can see it in the picture.Let me know if you think I should.
So,here's the pics.
uuhmmm..the top module isn't a dsl filter/splitter...the correct module is this...»www.hometech.com/hts_images/cc/c···sl_1.jpg »www.hometech.com/hts/products/wi···dsl.html see the blue end / snap connector? sometimes they are purple...
however, the lower module is indeed a dsl splitter...but it looks like he didn't use it judging from the re/green wires that are dangling..
[edit: didn't read the part that you installed that]...make him come back and re-do the wire using that splitter...just like what my picture shows...it's better if you let him do it rather than you trying to do it by yourself...when he asked if you had a splitter, he probably thought that you had junction box dsl splitters like this...»www.computercableinc.com/ccinc/i···0801.jpg and you meant another thing..miscommunication....
how it should be wired should look something like this....»www.netsynctest.net/services/ima···er_1.jpg I dont think you have the same diagram... |
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1 edit | OK, I'll give him a call to put in the other dsl splitter like in your picture. Wasn't sure if I just needed to attach the dsl splitter I had now to the wires in the other box at the top if I actually needed to use it. |
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| Just an FYI, they (AT&T) are not obligated to install the splitter for you. Anything past the demarc is your responsibility.
Another thing, and this is important, - you have one IW going into the house. There isn't anything to split! A NID splitter will do you no good. Perhaps you misunderstood the function of the NID split; it's to isolate the DSL jack from the voice jacks. In order to do this, the DSL jack needs to be a home run back to the NID.
What happened to the other IW's that you had before?
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| That is the main line into the house. The others went nowhere. I am running all
new lines for voice and a dedicated DSL line. |
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| There's no sense in calling a guy to come back out and hook up what isn't there yet. Make sense? You'll give the one guy that actually did something a "repeat report" (a ding on his record).
Now it's all up to you. You need to install the new extensions and run them back to the NID. Once that is done, you can hook up the splitter. Until then, there is nothing further to do.
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| Are you referring to the wires that are attached
to the dsl splitter in the box that isn't attached to the NID as seen in
the picture? |
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| That is the NID splitter (the little box with the red and green wires). It's not hooked up, because there isn't anything to split. You need to have your dedicated DSL extension run FIRST.
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| That's what I was asking about previously. When I get
my line run, then I should wire that to the other box at the top and then run my dedicated DSL line to that? |
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| said by Gigabyte2004:That's what I was asking about previously. When I get
my line run, then I should wire that to the other box at the top and then run my dedicated DSL line to that?
here's my whole NID looks like wide open..
[left, telco side] upper left screw terminal is my main line...see the blue and white wires coming from the telco? and then the red / green wires coming out of it going to the dsl splitter on top right of customer side? from there, voice goes out as blue/white and dsl goes out as orange /white....
telco side, upper right is another phone line I had years ago which is now dead...same with the lower left...
said by nunya:That is the NID splitter (the little box with the red and green wires). It's not hooked up, because there isn't anything to split. You need to have your dedicated DSL extension run FIRST.
said by nunya:Just an FYI, they (AT&T) are not obligated to install the splitter for you. Anything past the demarc is your responsibility.
Another thing, and this is important, - you have one IW going into the house. There isn't anything to split! A NID splitter will do you no good.
can you explain? |
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You'll pull off the existing IW (blue white). Replace it with the POTS splitter (the red and green wires).
Move the Blue-White wires to the POTS terminal on the splitter.
Terminate the DSL jack on the DATA (ADSL, DSL, or whatever it's labeled) terminal on the splitter.
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So it looks like the wires from the dsl splitter should
be attached to the telco side of the NID? That would make
the one he installed unnecessary. Am I thinking about this right? Sorry
for all the questions. Trying to get a grasp as to what needs to be done. |
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said by nunya:You'll pull off the existing IW (blue white). Replace it with the POTS splitter (the red and green wires).
Move the Blue-White wires to the POTS terminal on the splitter.
Terminate the DSL jack on the DATA (ADSL, DSL, or whatever it's labeled) terminal on the splitter.
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said by Gigabyte2004:So it looks like the wires from the dsl splitter should
be attached to the telco side of the NID? That would make
the one he installed unnecessary. Am I thinking about this right? Sorry
for all the questions. Trying to get a grasp as to what needs to be done.
try what nunya  said... |
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So I think I have of grasp now. The telco side will have to be
open to wire it correctly... Right?
So I need to remove the wires that are attached to the splitter
he has installed. Take the dsl splitter wires and then put them where the other
wires were just removed. Then take my phone line and attachments itvto the pots side, then run my direct dsl line to the data side of that splitter? Is this right? |
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| No. You do not open the telco side. That's illegal and best left alone.
Read my directions over again.
You are making it much more complicated than it should be.
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| Dang, I see what you mean now, I think. I'm just taking the blue/white wire attached to my phone line and then putting the green/red wire into that spot. Then taking my phone line and putting it into the pots voice. I was over thinking it. |
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