Filtered Faceplate Question

Currently my router is plugged into a socket that I have spurred directly off the main BT socket into the house. Would I therefore see any benefit to installing the filtered faceplate to the main socket aside from not having to use microfilters on non-adsl equipment?

Possibly. best way to tell is by checking your line stats (Attenuation/noise margin) as they are now and then by plugging directly to the test socket in the master if you have one. If there is an improvement in the test socket then you may gain by fitting a filtered faceplate.

Faceplate filters won't do anything for extensions used for ADSL, because these extensions are not filtered. If you have long phone extensions, then you may see a little improvement, but if your router socket extension is quite long, you may see an improvement if you plug the router directly into the filtered faceplate, and run Cat5 back from that.

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Faceplate filters won't do anything for extensions used for ADSL, because these extensions are not filtered.

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To clarify that, an extension into which you plug an ADSL device must not be filtered. That means it must either be plugged into the ADSL socket on the front of the face plate rather than the normal connections on the back (which are filtered).

A better solution would be to obtain a faceplate such as from ADSLNation which has A and B sockets They provide an unfiltered circuit similar to that coming in to the back of the master socket. At the other end, if you do not need a telephone, you could just fit an RJ11 socket (pins 3 & 4); if you do need a telephone there, one of the following:

1. Buy an NTE5 socket and install it as a "secondary master" and then fit a filtered face-plate.
2. Buy a simple filtered face plate.
3. Buy an ordinary telephone socket and use a filter.

Thanks for clarifying that - the point I was trying to make is that the ADSL side of the faceplate is un-filtered, so fitting a filtered faceplate won't do anything to improve noise problems which can be caused by long extensions used for ADSL.