FreeMoose
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2024
I'm using it primarily as a phone filter since they are inexpensive. The filter comes in two parts; a small phone line and the filter box. Overall, it works as advertised.
wlr/buddysbuddy
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2024
I got a phone jack/plug in simple phone to use if power goes out. It works except for an awful noise. I got this filter and instantly that noise is gone. Solved my problem.
Ilayna
Reviewed in Canada on February 10, 2020
It did not stop the disruption on the line
Margot Vigeant
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2020
We have a single working phone line in the house, so to maintain a voice line in parallel with our DSL, I installed this DSL splitter/noise filter. Good news: noise filter works, phone line sounds clean and is functional. Bad news: As has been reported in some of the other reviews, this drops our DSL speed considerably and replicably when installed. Yes, it is normally variable, but whatever the number from speedtest.net is when it's installed is about 2/3 of the value when it's removed.The physics of the matter is that any passive filter will likely reduce speed, but I don't believe it has to be by quite this much. 3 stars because I can't find another filter on here that appears to do any better.
Jim
Reviewed in Canada on August 22, 2019
made no difference
Luna Mora
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2019
I tried many things prior to this to restore the dsl connection that had been working for 5 years and then suddenly started dropping. New router (same model), new cables, surge protector, no surge protector, different laptops, different ROKU box. I was considering an IP Passthrough with a different router ahead of the AT&T router (don't ask me how to do this, because I didn't have to do that after all). Then I noticed that the only thing I hadn't changed was the DSL filter/splitter connecting the broadband wire on one side and the telephone wire on the other. I thought I would try this last thing, and if it didn't work, either try the IP passthrough or give up AT&T.It worked!! ROKU streams again without breaking up. The other computers in the house connect, and we can all surf the web at the same time.
Ama Zoon
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2019
Okay first off these devices looked nothing like the image online. There should be an accurate description of what you are getting and it should be what is displayed. Now the other aspect is that these devices actually made the line noise worse for me. I do have a lot of electronics connected in the data closet so had high hopes this would tone down some of the noise. I did have one older DSL filter from my old Verizon setup that I was not utilizing. The worse noise was on my polycom so started with using the filter on the main line in. After doing comparisons it was actually picking up or making worse the line noise. I disconnected everything moved some lines away from things like UPS's etc. and only a slight change. Went into my office and placed directly between polycom and wall outlet - and it made more noise than before. I then used my old dsl filter and quieted down the noise not 100% but definitely better. I removed and placed this new filter and it went back to the noise again. As mentioned I made several tests to compare with my old filter and the new and had adverse effects. Obviously, I can not crack them open without me not being able to send back for refund. They are extremely light compared to my other filter so question if this is nothing more than a simple spliter (just wires split inside to the two phone Cat 3 outputs). In any case did not work for me :(
Marius Z
Reviewed in Canada on April 15, 2019
Most DSL installations will give you an in-line filter to plug your phones into, but if you have a single jack that needs to service both DSL and phone, you can go one of two ways: a phone line splitter plug + provided filter, or this. I went with this, even though it is a but more expensive, because it looks clean and won't cause any issues. Used it without any problems for months, before I upgraded to dual-line pair-bonded high speed DSL.
Krishna
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2018
I never realized how vitally important a DSL filter was until we bought this. Before installing this DSL filter our internet speeds had dropped to about a third of what we were paying for and we were plagued by the internet randomly disconnecting several times a day. On top of that the internet could never be used while the landline phone was in use, meaning every time the phone rang, the internet had to be unplugged to prevent static from intruding on the phone line.After installing one of these filters on the landline phone, our internet speeds went up to our maximum speed (which was faster than I'd ever seen it work), stay consistently fast without speed drops and have never disconnected since then. Most importantly, the phone can be used while the internet is in use without any negative effect on speed or call quality.I bought this because one review on here mentioned that it helped solve internet speed problems for someone else. I had no idea it would also allow the internet and phone line to be used simultaneously. If you have a landline phone and aren't getting your full internet speed, try this DSL filter out, it might just solve your problem like it did ours. Highly recommend this product.
Thumbs
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2018
I bought 4 sets because for some reason DSL filters fail quickly in cold weather. In about two weeks, one has already failed. Otherwise they work fine. The delivery was fast and the price was right.
Riyaas
Reviewed in India on May 17, 2017
its ok
Sajid G. Mulla
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2015
Didn't think I would be love with something but it keeps the parents off my back. For some reason the old Pace American splitter that was supplied by ATT went dead, and because of that both phones in the front and my room went out. I was fortunate to find the source to be the splitter didn't feel like paying 80-100 for some technician to check the line and to tell me that the splitter went out.Unplugged the defective splitter and just plugged in the dsl cable in the phone line only had to wait 9 days but the whining stopped on why there att phones didn't work and for this god-send dsl splitter to come my way. Why they can't just be happy with the Expensive sole German phone in the front is beyond me they don't even sell that phone here. I personally like the phone it is color but finding auxilary models for it is expensive.However, I'm happy everything works for the time being.