Phone Cuts off Internet

[steelroe]

Maybe someone on here has a similar problem to this.

Whenever I answer the landline it causes the green internet light on my router to turn red and internet will not function. Once I hang up the internet returns after a couple of seconds.
Probably some setting in the router needs to be changed.

[adrian]

Have you an ADSL splitter to split your phone and broadband signal in place?

[steelroe]

Sorry for my ignorance Adrian but are you referring to the DSL filter, if so yes I have one connected to the phone connection to the router. The phone is plugged in to a phone socket in a diff room. Maybe I need a filter with the phone too ????

[CJ]

Install the filter at the jack closest to the router, position is important. More info:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2210245_install ... phone.html

CJ

[finers]

Sorry for my ignorance Adrian but are you referring to the DSL filter, if so yes I have one connected to the phone connection to the router. The phone is plugged in to a phone socket in a diff room. Maybe I need a filter with the phone too ????

Yup each phone needs a filter Rory;)

[steelroe]

Sorted I had a spare filtyer and plugged it into the other phone socket and problem solved. Should have realised this earlier as it only started happening when I moved the phone from the Router filter to its own phone outlet.

Next question are these filters router specific or will any dsl filter do. I am going to try and wire the filter into the back of the phone outlet as having a filter hanging from every oultet does not look great.

[Baldrick]

Filters are not router specific. Any one will do.