I want to connect both my ADSL modem (zoom 5510 usb) and my dial up modem to the same phone extension socket however when i try to connect the dial up modem through the adsl filter it can't get a dialing tone from either side of the splitter/filter Can i run them both direct to the phone socket with just the phone connected to the filter? Im currently waiting to get my line activated for adsl with metronet and iv'e got everything set up including the filters. Is it ok to use the dial up modem "unfiltered" on the same line as the adsl modem? Im new to broadband and just need some advice
I'm not sure you can have both on the same line at the same time. you might be better waiting until the adsl is connected before you install the bit's and pieces reqd for it.
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In theory you will get 2 outputs from your ADSL line - a digital broadband connection and an analogue telephone line. The first is obviously only for your BB connection but the second is a bog-standard telephone line and can be used in the same way as any normal t/p line. That means you can connect a dial-up modem to it and use that to connect to the net. You will need two accounts from your ISP - one BB and one Dial-Up and I doubt very much that you will get any individual ISP to give you both. However there is nothing to stop you having say, BB from Freeserve and DialUp from Virgin. You will notice a degraded performance on the dial-up connection because the analogue line is optimised for voice calls not modems. That could mean a 44k connection dropping to perhaps 36 or 38k.
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