scotnik Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 My phone company is my ISP. They provided me with an Actiontec M1000 modem/router. I have that router connected to the wall jack by a standard phone wire about 18 ft. long (to reach my desk). I have hardwired a Linksys WRT54GS wireless router between the Actiontec and my desktop with a short ethernet cable. I was testing at speeds of about 1200 kb/s download and 80 kb/s upload. I knew my upload speed should be about ten times that, so I called my ISP. They had me unplug a cheap deskphone I had plugged into the Actiontec modem. That brought me to about 600 kb/s upload speed. I then unplugged the only other phone in the house. A new DECT cordless on the kitchen wall. It came with a filter because the DECT frequency is similar to my wireless frequency. My upload speed jumped to above 800 kb/s. When I removed the filter from the DECT phone and plugged it back in, my download speed crashed to about 130 kb/s. I have port forwared successfully. (I had to port forward through both routers.) I have set up utorrent successfully. But my up/down speeds are optimum only as long as I don't have the phones plugged in.Can anyone explain this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 You need to call the phone company to split the phone line where it comes in the house, as clearly the DSL filters don't work for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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