Moving modem to different room

[BenRoth99]

Hey guys so I'm trying to move my modem into my room, and everything seems to be fine. i plugged the green data cable into a phone line in my room, plugged tv line thing into the modem and everything. What i'm missing is this cat 5e box that is on the phone line in the room it originally was. Is there a way I can move this or a way around it, because without it the landline phones don't work.

 

[Onus]

I think the little box you're describing is a DSL filter. You need that; it goes on the incoming line, and splits out for the DSL modem and for your traditional phone(s).

 

[dricha36]

Is this for a DSL modem or a DOCSIS (Cable) Modem?

 

[BenRoth99]

http://s280.photobucket.com/user/Benrothgaming99/library/?view=recent&page=1

take a look guys, thanks so much

 

[Onus]

Media sharing sites are blocked at work.

 

[boosted1g]

Ok, that helps a lot. You have a dsl modem.

Connect that filter box to wall outlet, then connect green cable to green box on modem. The other phone line should go from phone line output on modem to a phone in the room if you have one. The 4 Ethernet ports should go to the computer

 

[BenRoth99]

Thank you so much that was really helpful. What if i do not have a phone in that room?

And i still dont understand why the phones arent working without that cable plugged in even though the phones have an ethernet plugged into them that goes directly into the wall.

Also how do I remove that filter box?
Very new to networking

 

[Onus]

The phones should use RJ11 jacks; Ethernet uses the wider RJ45.

 

[boosted1g]

Ethernet is RJ45 which has 8 wires in it, phone line uses rj11 (or also rj12) which has 4 (or 6) pairs of wires in it.

The filter separates the DSL frequency from the phone frequency on your phone line coming from the phone company.

Computer networking only works point A to point B, you can not split the cable. You have to have what is called a networking switch to provide enough logic to "split" one Ethernet cord into multiple cords (every router that has 4 ports on it has a switch built in).
A phone network on the other hand comes in as 4 (or 6) wires, and then can split it into multiple phone jacks. So the green wire in your phone jack gets the same electrical data on it to every green wire in every jack to your house.

Now sometimes DSL gives you a dedicated line as your DSL, so it is possible that the jack in the old room was wired specifically for the DSL connection.

 

[Alabalcho]

This is not DSL but U-Verse Ethernet/TV gateway (note there is also "cable" connector on the box), and it is quite possible that the "phone line" coming from the wall is "data" only, and all processing is done inside the box (that is, the phone(s) are actually some kind of VoIP). This could explain why the landline phone sets needs to be connected into the gateway.