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Originally Posted by mithrandir
I have a few relatives with poor hearing. Some of them can't understand us when we use the wireless extension, but have no problems with any of the wired extensions. I can't detect any difference between the various extension in the sound when I ring home from my mobile, the Cisco VOIP phones at work, or other people's wired phones.
As for ADSL, I put in a central splitter at the cable entry point to the house so I don't need filters on every extension.
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Hi Andrew
I also have a hearing problem and generally can't use mobile phones or the wireless extension.
I also split the phone line close to the entry and feed all the phone extensions from the one filter (except the one on my ADSL line that comes to the computer room). This where I have my special amplified phone. It is a dial up of 1960's vintage that my brother salvaged after it had been in a flood. I still have not found a better phone but the dial is a nuisance with the automatic phone answering.
Incidently the original phone line went from the entry point on the NE corner to the kitchen then the back bedroom at the SW corner and then the computer room (4t bedroom) NW corner. About 50 meters all up. I disconnected the computer room line at the back bedroom, pulled it back and took the cable across the ceiling to the entry point. That is where I made my split. Works pretty good on ADSL that way but I don't think it would have done much for the ADSL the original way.
While I was in the mood I also ran a LAN cable (Cat 6) from the computer room to the garage with a socket near the telco entry point. This will in fact allow me to put the modem right at the telco entry point and use the LAN to connect it to the computer. Might give me a couple more Mb/s.
Barry
