[plug] modem on adsl

[Shayne O'Neill]

I've been told (not sure how true it is however) that the effective
information carrier bandwidth of the line is somewhat reduced by all that
out of band 'noise' on the line, so perhaps try a lower rate. Maybe 33 or
28k.

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On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Daniel Pearson wrote:

> I have the same problem too, weirdly enough. Even using a filter, sometimes it
> just won't work. Yet if I hook it into the phone socket where my ADSL plugs in..
> it works, strange eh? :)
>
> Quoting Denis Brown <dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>:
>
> > At 11:31 AM 9/03/2005, you wrote:
> > >Can a normal 56k external modem be used on the phone line side of an
> > >adsl installation? I tried,no go, but dont know if possible or if the old
> > >modem has died?
> >
> > Hmmm... I've not tried it but cannot see any reason, in theory, why it
> > would not work.   The 56K modem should use voiceband-ish frequency range
> > and the ADSL is very much out-of-band from a voice perspective.   Might pay
> > to check on your filter though.   You may be able to try the modem on
> > another known-modem-friendly 'phone line?
> >
> > HTH,
> > Denis (willing to stand corrected on the above!)
> >
> >
> >
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