Good, sounds like the perfect solution. Cost effective, uncomplicated and achieves exactly what you need with relatively little effort. Job done. As they say, the simplest solutions are always the best. If it was me I'd run a round 13 amp cable thru the the wall and fit a double wall socket and back plate (less than £4 on eBay). One it would hide the hole and Two you've then got another 13amp socket available for other things even if it's just the Hoover.

Edited by deleted (Fri 27-Feb-15 18:22:01)

He says that he has 5 extensions in the property, there's no way that that isn't going to make a big difference to his sync rate if uses the service with microfilmers and on an extension.

I said "Say in the master you may get 80Mbps." Notice the careful usage of the word may.

My post then builds upon that.

Nowhere does it state the user will get those speeds it's just a theoretical example.

I am now going to use the master socket (since I found a solution to my first issue).

I can receive Fibre Pro on my line (up to 80 meg), but have opted for the 40/10 product.

Taking into consideration that my line speed is capped, I presume that fitting a VDSL faceplate won't have any discernible benefit over microfilters.

A faceplate will have benefits. If your extensions are not filtered at that point you will have a set of additional paths down which the signal can and will flow. When it gets to the microfilter at the end it will be rejected and reflected back up the line to the point where the modem is installed. The reflections will be out of sync and out of phase with signal there and thus be seen as noise.

I think the advice is fit the VDSL faceplate if you are going to plug into that socket. it is not much money to just fix this as a future issue.

Fit the VDSL faceplate, it's all all pluses with no negatives for a relatively small outlay. Eliminate all possible future problems now. No brainer IMHO.

As no rewiring is required, it seems like a good thing to do.

There are brand new Openreach Mk3 faceplates being sold on eBay and Amazon. They cost about £8 on eBay, but £19 on Amazon. That's quite a huge difference in price for the same product.

Is £8 a standard price?

Won't the extensions need rewiring?

According to this video, they don't.

It looks like the extensions are on the front plate, and the Mk3 slots between the back socket and the front plate, sitting over the extension cables.

Is this not the case?

I only need the VDSL signal on the master socket, and I only want voice in the extensions.