Cable or DSL?

[David]

>The part that bugs me is the self install kit has filter(s) that you have
>to add to every phone.  When they did mine (free back then through my DSL
>provider) the SWBC guy installed a filter at the dmarc (sic?) and that was
>that.  Anyone know why you couldn't just install filter on customer side of
>box going into house?

If your house is wired such that you can get your DSL modem on the line in 
front of any phones, and hence segreate the wiring between "phones" and 
"DSL", then you should be able to use just a single filter.  But "home 
wiring" realities being what they are, where the customer has his/her 
computer is where the DSL provider wants to put the modem (for simplicity's 
sake - no new wiring), and that location is more often than not poorly 
suited to segregating the DSL wiring from the voice wiring.

Putting a filter at every phone is an ugly solution, but it works for just 
about any home wiring situation (assuming DSL will work), and makes it just 
as easy to put the DSL modem on any phone jack, and then move it to any 
other jack.

David