[GreenKeys] OT Pots DSL Filter

[Doug Alderdice]

When you say "non dial tone lines," are you only receiving DSL from 
CenturyLink, i.e. no regular telephone service?

I am not familiar with the box you picture, but there should be filtered 
and non-filtered outputs available in the box.  Filtered would go to 
telephones, non-filtered would go to your DSL modem.  DSL is 
superimposed on the line well outside and above the voice frequency band 
and thus connections going to telephones needs to go through the filter. 
  If you are only getting DSL on the copper pair then you just need a 
line from the unfiltered side to your DSL modem.  Can you open the 
little door where it says "slide latch and open door" and take a photo 
of what's inside?

The connections on the box are likely the 110-style punch block.  You 
can get cheap, plastic punch down tools for that wherever telephone and 
network wiring and jacks are sold, like at Home Depot and Lowe's in 
their electric sections.

Phone wiring is wired in parallel, either from the box to one jack to 
the next to next in older homes or in newer installations as home-runs 
from each jack to the box.

Doug, KA2WFT


On 4/29/2017 6:50 PM, rice wrote:
> Greetings GKers
>
> I recently went back to DSL CenturyLink internet service from my High
> Cost Xfinity Cable.
>
> I need to troubleshoot 2 non dial tone lines in the home itself
>
> Having limited telephone wiring experience, these questions are now
> floating in my head
>
> 1. Do all telephone lines in the walls hook up in series or parallel at
> the pots box ?
>
> 2. Having a new DSL pots box filter/splitter is new to me, when I open
> same, which tool is used to punch down pairs on this thing ?
>
> I'm only familiar with a 66 block from years past. :  (