NTE5 refers to standard master socket.

If you have the ADSL faceplate and the sky box is connected via the extension connections on the back of this faceplate, then correct no filter needed.

Not if it is connected to the secondary A/B ones that the XTE-2005 has. It would need a filter then.

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 13-Mar-12 21:15:59)

Ok so it seems that I've got a 'star' arrangement and the adsl is on a spur then?

Sorry for the confusion about the NTE5 - I thought that was the name of the adsl faceplate - oops!

I took a dodgy phonecamera pic of the outside of the gable end:

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j391/JackoLad/IM...

If the system is indeed a star, and the adsl is on a spur, does this mean that my current sync speed is about as high as I'll get? 4 Mbps doesn't seem too bad 2.5km from the exchange I suppose.

Waiting for Sky Fibre...

Edited by deleted (Wed 14-Mar-12 17:20:56)

4 Mbps doesn't seem too bad 2.5km from the exchange I suppose.

8M sync is possible on 2.5km of line length, but star wiring could knock it down a long way especially if the ring wire is in circuit

So you have a filtered faceplate on the nte5 which the router is connected to (no phone in use there) and two extension sockets: one for the cordless phone in the kitchen and another for the sky box in the lounge? If that is the case then it's possible that the filtered voice wires are somehow going to the kitchen from the back of the faceplate which would be fine and Sky (or somebody) have perhaps fitted an extension for the Sky box to another section of the house telephony wiring which may not be properly filtered...