Why does my internet broadband internet connection keep failing whenever my phone rings?
I assume you have a DSL broadband connection. If you do, you probably need to install a DSL-filter/splitter on your phone line or if you already have one, maybe it isn’t working as it should. The phone signal is kept separate from the DSL signal using a filter so that the phone-calls don’t interfere with your internet connection. If you don’t have a filter, then every time your phone rings, the phone call interferes with the internet signal and causes the modem to drop its connection. There are 2 ways in which the filters are installed and without knowing what your setup is, its hard to give a more definitive answer. If there is a filter – something that looks like this: http://www.bochterservices.com/onlinestore/images/127.jpg see if changing the filter helps, usually ISPs give you a bunch of them when you get the broadband connection. Also, make sure all your phones have a filter between the phone wall-jack and the cord/line from the phone instrument. The other setup probably needs p
