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#35248 6-Jun-2009 20:32
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A friend of mine rang me tonight asking me about setting up a new TP-Link wireless router to replace his current wired only router. As we were going through the stages of unplugging the old router and hooking up the new router the phone suddenly cut out and I couldnt hear him speak anymore. We worked out that when he plugged the new router into the phone jack it was causing the phone line to go dead. Well kinda, as soon as he unplugged it we could hear each other again but when I got him to hang up, plug the router in, then try and call me back he said there was no dial up tone at all. My question is has anyone come across this before and how would I fix it? He said the phone line pllug was literally being pulled out of the old router and plugged into the new one with no other changes being made, and the only other device plugged into the phone line was the phone he was talking to me on, with both devices having filters on them

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  #222333 6-Jun-2009 21:30
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Your friends new router is NOT an ADSL router, it has an Ethernet interface for the WAN port and has also most likely been poked by the 48 VDC on the phoneline.




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  #222342 6-Jun-2009 21:49
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ah of course, cheers, looks like I'll be going around to hook it up to his adsl modem tomorrow then.

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  #222354 6-Jun-2009 22:45
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8d52797c436: ah of course, cheers, looks like I'll be going around to hook it up to his adsl modem tomorrow then.



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Depending on luck it may or may not be fried. Some ethernet devices will handle 48v on the pin 4/5 pair from a phoneline being in, others won't.




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  #222361 6-Jun-2009 23:09
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sounds exactly like the (ultra-cheap) wireless access router I was using for Telstraclear cable.

Not an ADSL router, the phone plug will fit in the WAN port but will look too small. The actual router will probably still be ok though it may have failed.

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  #222886 9-Jun-2009 02:58
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pins 4 and 5 are nothing to do with the ethernet and are normally just connected together on the board for interference reasons - its only going anywhere on gigabit stuff.




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