I have been having intermittant DSL problems for about a week now, loss of sync, low sync rate, and static on my POTS line. Of course what happens is they raise concerns about my IW...which I am 100% is not the issue...but hey, I only have been doing this for about 5 years so it's not like I know DSL or anything. *sigh*...anyways, after much wailing and knashing of teeth I finally decided to put in a NID Splitter in order to quell any considerations of IW problems. I never...NEVER wanted to do this because my office is on the 2nd floor, and any wire would have to be run along the outside of the house. This is a nightmare to do...and I just didn't want to put a hole in our house. So it took about 4 hours give or take, went pretty smoothly and of course I took pictures. Here's a pic of the NI when I opened the telco side:

This is the NID Splitter that I'm going to install:

Just for the hell of it I checked the phone line's polarity:

I used cable clips to secure the cat5 to the house...I recommend pulling out the little nails they come with and replacing with longer ones so you get some grip:

Here's the wire run where it exits the office wall:

And here the wire continues and wraps around the roof:

And finally it runs to the NI:

Here's a close up of the NID Splitter's label...for the heck of it:

While this model NID Splitter wasn't made exactly for the NI I have, it still fit easily inside:

The hardest part of this was probably having to cut a hole in the office wall...:(

Then there are these nifty little things you can use when there's no gang box to screw into:

And finally, all done....wrong color...but it's what I had lying around for now..some day i'm sure i'll change it to white: