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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Remember that an on-hook telephone is IIRC a shorted phone. More or
less. The point of the filter is not not make it shorted with respect to
high frequencies.. if taking a phone off stats the broadband, the filter
is not in the right place or not doing its job.

Hmm. My broadband works without any filter and with all the many phones on
their rests. The filter(s) is/are to stop the ADSL carrier interfering
with the phones - not the other way round.

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