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by scottlindner » Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:47 am
Excellent news! So it was a DSL and HPNA conflict.
There are many options, almost limitless. It depends a lot on your situation with your telephone wires in your home, and your motivation/laziness (no offense intended). It is a bit tricky since you have an integrated landline but not impossible. The ideal approach is if you can split the DSL and landline at the telco demarc (the phone box outside that you have access to) and run a separate line to your DSL modem. The idea is so your phone lines in your home do not have the DSL signal on them, such that the DSL signal is only going to your DSL modem. Depending on your situation this may be tough.
Another thought that would be simple to do is to go to your telco demarc and put the phone line and line 2. That is the yellow/black pair of wires. In your home you can use an L1,L2,L1+L2 splitter (or make a special L2 to L1 cable) so you can get the phone line off Line 2. Run Line 2 to your DSL modem. Then use a filter from Line 2 (you may need a second splitter to make this happen) to Line 1. So now you have just your landline on Line 1, and both your DSL and landline on Line 2. This is might be the simplest solution.
There are other options to consider as well, but it really depends on your situation, your motivation, and personal style. Let me know what you're thinking and will continue talking over some options.
To give you an idea of where this could go. I ran a Cat5 from the demarc to my network rack and disconnected all phone lines in the demarc. In my network rack I have my DSL modem, a router, a 24 port switch, and an RJ45 based phone module, and a patch panel where I ran new Cat6 to each room (at least two runs). I can explain how it's wired up another time, but what I did is put the Ooma Hub phone port on Line 1, the Scout phone port on Line 2, and the Hub and Scout wall ports on Line 3 (for the HPNA). Now I can go to any phone jack in the entire house and expect a regular two line phone to work. You wouldn't know Ooma was involved at all besides where I put the Hub or Scout for voice mail access. This might be over the top for most people since it is a ton of work to run new cable.
There is a compromise that I thought of after doing this that is almost as sophisticated, but with far less effort. If you run Cat5 (four pairs) from your DSL modem to your demarc. Disconnect all phone lines from the telco and connect them on L3 or L4 on the Cat5. You now can do all of the filtering inside your home in a single spot where the DSL modem is and still preserve your existing phone wiring for regular phone access. I can explain this in greater detail if this sounds like something you might want to do.
Scott