Date   : Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:27:54 +0000 (GMT)
From   : chris@... (Chris Johns)
Subject: [OT] ADSL capabilities

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Andrew Benham wrote:

> When ADSL is installed on a line which has multiple phones including a
> pulse-dialling phone on it, bell tinkle is going to reappear if
> you go down the 'every phone shall have a microfilter' route.  The
> only clean solution, as Darren mentioned, is a filtered faceplate
> for the incoming line at the NTE5 master socket.  This separates
> the ADSL and phone signals early in the layout, and then the existing
> 3-wire phone wiring can work as designed.

I suspect it's largely a non-problem as pretty much no-one uses pulse 
dialing phones now.

I'm not sure there are any pulse-dialling only exchanges left (and if 
there are I doubt they would support ADSL) and pretty much all phones will 
support DTMF - the only exceptions I can think of are rotary ones and some 
very early push-button ones.
-- 
  Chris Johns <chris@...             >