in brief, as was recently explained to me; the dsl comes in and is raw wide band. You go from the place where it enters the house to the box. The dsl goes through unfiltered and remains wide band to any and all computers except for dial ups that you may wish to use. The phones get the other side of the box's out put. One output is raw dsl and the other is narrow, filtered, voice band. Your phones get the filtered voice band signal so that 1. he phones do not dump noise onto the computer lines, 2. the dsl doesn't blast noise at your phone and 3. you can still use dial up computers unhindered. Although I'm sure they don't wantyou to so they can keep that separated. The cat5 or thicker round cable is for the computer, but you probably know that already.
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Brice wrote: > I currently have Comcast for my ISp and don't care with the total package we > got. So, we went back to A T and T with direct TV. Here's my problem. The > sent me a DSL phone modem slash Y-5 for internet access. I've never hooked > one of these up before. It came in a box, and the modem is about 8 by 10 > inches, with an AC adapter, 2 phone lines about 15 to 25 feet long, not > sure, haven't unraveled it yet. Plus 4 different jacks of some kind the fit > into the wall jacks. Went to A T and T's web sight and can't a anything on > setup or installation. Does anyone on the list give me a help setting this > up? > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 4835 (20100204) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > >
