Edwin,

I believe that it is the other way around, that is, that the filter is there
to keep DSL from interfering with your POTS (plain old telephone system.)
I'd recommend that you first try cabling the splitter side where the filter
is to the new Home Network NIC, but before the filter.  Then connect any
phones from the NIC output with the filter between the NIC and the phone.
This will give your new NIC the same signal as the DSL modem, but without
going through the modem.

If that doesn't work correctly, place the filter back between the splitter
and the Home Network NIC, which should not cause any interferance with your
phone.

(However, in our network, one of our 4 client boxes would not access the
network until we put one of the DSL filters on the phone lines in that
room - and we don't even have DSL!  We use Sprint Broadband which comes from
an antenna through a cable modem and ethernet card.  The other 3 work great
without any additional attention.  But, this would indicate that the phone
was indeed interfering with the network, which it is not supposed to do...)

If neither of these options gives you a good result, you can check your
phone line to see if you have more than one set of phone wires - most do
anymore.  If so, you could set up a dual plug outlet in the rooms where you
need to network and use the second phone line for the network.  I don't
believe that you actually need a phone company signal for the computers to
communicate using that copper wire.

Again, good luck!
Rand Blunck
Why Not Try Computing
Glendale, AZ

>... My DSL modem is hooked to the phone line with a 2 outlet
> splitter. The remaining socket on the splitter has a line filter connected
> to it so that the regular phone service will not interfere with dsl. Do I
> hook the cable from the Homefree card to this filtered side or do I not
use
> the filter. I certainly do not want to foul-up the dsl when I do this.

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