Does anyon know why my broadband internet connection goes off when I use my landline phone?
I had this problem when I had the broadband set up incorrectly. Instead of having a microfilter in the master socket, I had an ordinary splitter. One half of the splitter went to the phone, the other half had an extension in it, to the other room where the PC was. The microfilter was plugged into this. I got cut outs because of the beeps being sent down the line when I used the phone. Too much noise like this, and the modem can’t keep the connection. To solve it, I got some CAT-5 (I think that that’s what it was called – ask for “networking cable”). Put the microfilter into the master socket, then the phone and CAT cable into that. The microfilter will then handle the noise of the phone, and you shouldn’t lose the connection.
