HELP PLEASE

[janet]

I need help setting up a surge protector to my wireless connection, usually I have a filter plugged into my main telephone point and the telephone and dsl connector to the hub plugged into the filter. I need to use a surge protector because of problems I have had with bad weather, my protector is a belkin and it has two phone jacks 'in' and 'out' if I plug from the main telephone point into 'in' and then from out into the filter, where do I plug the filter into?:confused:

[BeeCeeBee]

Hi Janet

 

Just plug the filter into the wall and run your lines as you are doing. So it would be main jack, filter, wire to in wire out to PC.

 

That should do it for you.

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Personally I wouldn't bother with surge protectors as they only cover internal mains voltage spikes not something down the landline wire.

[Plastic Nev]

Some, not all, mains surge protectors do have a line in line out surge protector but even if there, it is not very good. The problem is technical but revolves around the fact that the ring tone signal, (when someone rings your landline phone) is a much higher voltage than the normal one. All modems though are set up to take this into account, and supposedly prevent high voltage spikes reaching the computer.

Any problems with surges are usually from the mains, more so in rural area's and can be higher, or more usual, lower than a surge protector can handle. If for example someone near, maybe a factory, starts something big, the mains voltage can drop to a level your computer cannot handle, it is voltage drops that cause the biggest problems in rural area's.

[Tootech]

Have a look at the Belkin range of surge protectors Wolfey - a lot of them have a phone line protector.

 

I guess it's just good practice - £25 quid spent protects your router, your PC and anything else you care to plug in.

 

I've not seen a router trashed from a phone line spike, but dial up modems - oh yes!

 

Used to buy them in 10 at a time when the autumn storms started - so many people had problems.

[Guest Wolfeymole]

I stand corrected Scott

 

I had a dial up modem fried on a 98 box once because of that.