Dave
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Registered: 26th Feb 01
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I need a splitter that has the same inputs/ouputs as a broadband microfilter but isn't a filter, if that makes sense. What's the proper name for them, searching for phone/modem splitters just seems to bring up microfilters.
Reason I need it is my router and Sky box are next to each other, then a phone extension runs to the wall socket where the landline is. I've got the filter where the router/Sky box is but obviously this knocks the broadband off when using the phone as the phone is on the wrong side of the filter.
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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just get a Y spliter and one for these:
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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its an RJ11 to telephone adaptor.
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Nismo
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or a BT splitter
http://www.yorkdistribution.co.uk/acatalog/York_Distribution_BT_splitter_with_BT___RJ11_socket_for_modem_677.html
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Dave
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Registered: 26th Feb 01
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Never thought of doing it that way, thanks.
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Dave
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Right, that didn't work, I'm guessing because now nothing is plugged into the modem input on the microfilter. Looks like I'll have to run a new cable for the router or put the router back to where the phone socket is and run a network cable to the Sky box. Or move the phone next to the router/Sky box.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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You can't plug the router into the filtered phone bit of the microfilter.
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Dave
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Registered: 26th Feb 01
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Yeah, it wasn't until I went to plug the filter in I realised. Put the filter back at the router end now, might just sack the landline off tbh, nothing but nuisance calls anyway, anyone who wants me always rings my mobile.
Would be nice if Sky boxes were wireless for anytime+ though.
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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Either use a wireless ethernet bridge or homeplugs if you want a 'wireless' connection. Failing that just wire in a phone extention to the sky box and a stick a microfilter on the end for the modem/router.
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Dave
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Registered: 26th Feb 01
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The latter is how it is now but because the phone is next to the BT socket it cuts the broadband off during a call.
I did consider homeplugs but it's a fairly expensive solution to what is only really a minor niggle.
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John
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Sky do their own wireless bridge but any will do.
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Nismo
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I dont see what the issue is? SKY and telephone into a y splitter into the telephone side of the filter and your router into the other 
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Dave
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The telephone isn't there. There is only one BT point in the house, the phone and the router used to be next to it, Sky was plugged into an extension. Now I've moved the router next to the Sky box so it's plugged into the router to get anytime+ but the phone is still at the wall socket so on the wrong side of the filter.
As I said earlier it's just a bit of a niggle, not a big issue.
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