Backfed phoneline

notahappycamper

Hi,

Would a backfed phone line cause quality issues for broadband?

I mean the phone line comes into our house in the hall, the router is in the sitting room and the line is back fed from there.

The phone is located in the kitchen ar another socket?

ED E

The modem should be at the NTU in the hallway ideally, thats where the drop is terminated.

Its normal to feed all other sockets from the hallway(MDP) and as long as filtering is used and the phones arent faulty it shouldn't cause problems.

Another thing to check is wiring quality, if the place is done with alarm wiring or bell wiring then DSL run over it will be degraded.

notahappycamper

ED E wrote: »

The modem should be at the NTU in the hallway ideally, thats where the drop is terminated.

Its normal to feed all other sockets from the hallway(MDP) and as long as filtering is used and the phones arent faulty it shouldn't cause problems.

Another thing to check is wiring quality, if the place is done with alarm wiring or bell wiring then DSL run over it will be degraded.

Eircom were out today and they seem to have killed the line from the kitchen so now the phone doesn't work but the broadband does - its located in the sitting room.

Any reason they would have killed that connection?

ED E

If the wiring is bad and its shorting or grounding the line then they'd kill it, internals are your responsibility not theirs. Would have assumed they'd tell you why though.