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DjShadow

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#15599 30-Aug-2007 18:45
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Hi All,

I'm on the Te Rapa exchange in Hamilton, I've noticed my router is now connecting using adsl2+. The connection speed hasn't really increased at all (have not really noticed anything different to be honest)

Anyway, what I've noticed now is whenever the phone rings our connection speed seems to drop from 3.1mb to between 1.6 and 1.8mb, I tried rebooting the router while a voice call was in progress and no change, wasn't until the voice call ended then I rebooted that I got the speed back up.
We're using the filters that come with dlink modems/routers (I have since upgraded to a netgear), does switching to an adsl2+ connection require new filters? I noticed when looking at jaycar's website they market "adsl2+ filters"

Thanks.

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  #84500 30-Aug-2007 19:20
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Sounds like a fault on the line. I've seen the "phone ringing" issue casued by an earth leak, e.g. wet phone cabling. You can try other filters, I've seen a few issues with some d-link branded filters. Try some Dynalink filters (or maybe those Jaycar ones.)




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