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I hear the radio over my Broadband Cable line when using VoIP?
I have a 400ft run of buried broadband cable running down my driveway. When I connect the VoIP TAD unit to my cable modem and listen to a phone I have plugged into the TAD I hear the dial tone but very clearly also hear a Spanish rock station. I'm guessing that the long run is causing my cable line to behave like an antenna but I don't know how to filter it out. Any ideas are appreciated.
I most likely should have added earlier that this is my second cable. The first was the wrong type for that long of a run. Sorry about that.
Make sure you ground the NID - network interface device properly. That's the box on your house that the cable enters into. There should be a ground lug (bolt) labeled on the unit. If there is no at least AWG12 wire attached to it, there is your problem. Get a piece of ground wire and run it to the nearest cold water pipe and clamp to it using a proper grounding clamp. Home Depot would carry all the parts you need. Also, the problem is most likely NOT the buried cable simply because there is not much reception UNDER the ground. Seriously, you are probably picking up some interference between your NID on the house and the VoIP gateway. Besides, there simply cannot be any interference in VoIP until it hits the VoIP gateway that converts it back to analog, which is the form of signal susceptible to interference.
It seems a weird problem to have but basically any interference problem is usually treated with proper grounding.