Question about installing a DSL line....
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We have a telephone line in the kitchen that I'd like to run to the TV room for a DSL connection. There are two wires, one is blue w/white stripe and the other is solid blue ... will this be sufficient to use as an internet connection (DSL) for the PS3 and AVR or would I need to have a Cat5 line for that?
I am completely S-T-U-P-I-D whenever it comes to stuff like this.
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You will need a modem to connect to your phone line (which will have to have the proper carrier supplied by your... carrier). The PS3 will connect to the modem.
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Rick, do you already have DSL in your home?
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Yes in another room of the house Randy, is that we need?
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Yes. The DSL modem is what gives you an internet connection that your devices (computer PS3, etc.) can understand. Without it, they'll only get a dial tone.
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The reason that I'm asking is that we're (ME!) is installing a back splash for the counter tops in the kitchen and there's a phone line that is located on a wall that just happens to be opposite the same wall as the component rack for the TV room ... what I'd like to do is to run those existing phone wires to the rack for my internet connect source for the components because we don't need the kitchen phone jack anymore.
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So as I understand it I can run the existing wires to the rack and connect a modem and then we should be ready to roll Peter?
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You can only have one DSL modem connected to a phone line at a time. You can certainly connect one in your equipment rack, but then you'd need to either run an ethernet cable from there to your computer or go wireless.
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Yes, provided you already have a DSL-capable connection to your carrier. The wires are the same as regular, but the protocols that runs on them are not.
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And, yeah, as Peter said, only one!
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