DSL modem set up.

[Getback]

Just purchased my second dsl modem in about 2 years. Seems they would last longer. This time I connected the phone line to the surge protector and then to the computer. Is this how it should be done? Am I losing bandwidth?

Thanks all!

[TheZohan]

i dont know if that should effect it or not, i've never had to connect any of my dsl modem through a surge protector.

[OOZ662]

No, you don't have to, but surges happen on the phone system too.

You can think of it the same way as you can think of lightning; it's come a few thousand miles to get to the ground and a little 1/2 inch fuse isn't going to stop it.
Well, that phone signal's come whatever distance, so unless you have a really low quality surge protector, what's another foot or so of travel?

[Getback]

The new dsl seems really fast. I guess it doesn't matter. Also, my screen wood flicker when I booted up and now it doesn't. Apparently it's been going bad for some time.

[BaldEagl]

No, you don't have to, but surges happen on the phone system too.

11-12 years ago there was an electrical surge through the phone lines during a storm that zapped my (at that time) 56K modem.  I always made sure to run the line through a surge protector after that.

[Delirium]

I've tried to run my DSL modems through a surge protector, but it seems as tho the modems are very sensitive. I kept having errors until I removed the surge protector...

When I ran DSL I also went through a modem every 16 months like clock work, every year when I resigned the contract I'd make sure I got a new modem out of it. Rest assured, I needed it before the year was over.

[Denholm]

Be careful with the Surge Protectors/Suppressors. I used to always run my phone line through one and then plug it into my DSL modem. However, one day while on the phone with Tier 2 support at AT&T I learned that the Surge Protector's/Suppressor's noise reduction feature was looking at the DSL signal as a line spike thus reducing the signal strength and causing line errors.

Yes, the DSL will still work. It will only have more errors and might be a little slower than if you didn't hook it up to the Surge Protector/Suppressor.