First time poster, so please go easy on me.<BR><BR>It seems my DSL modem takes over my phone line, too, and I could use your help figuring out why.<BR><BR>I recently subscribed to BellSouth DSL. With ...

I tried to get a CAT5 run from the phone line filter to my DSL modem. The best I could get is a few seconds of the modem trying to get a DSL connection before it gave up. As soon as I tried a standard ...

My DSL line downloads at 6 megabits per second. I just ran the test. This is over a pair of copper twisted wires, the same Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) twisted pair that connected your ...

If your company only has the resources for a single telephone line, you can use it to support a telephone, fax machine and a computer modem. While ideally you would have a dedicated phone line for ...

(1) (Voice Over IP modem) A device that converts Internet-based voice service from the cable or telephone company to the user's telephones. Officially called an analog telephone adapter. (2) (Voice ...

Connect the modem to a wall outlet with a coax cable and plug the modem into an electrical outlet. Connect devices to the modem wirelessly, or with an ethernet cable to a LAN outlet on the modem. When ...

A device that connects multiple computers to a cable or DSL line for Internet access. Also called a "residential gateway," "modem/router," "modem gateway," "home gateway" and "Internet gateway." The ...

Fresh from a defeat at the hands of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, independent DSL providers say that what may happen next — a further relaxing of requirements that regional Bells must ...