You still need to remove the ring wire at the master socket.

you could also get a prefiltered faceplate (providint its a NTE5 type socket) found here . They look better than standard filters hanging out of your wall and also as its pre filtered any extensions shouldn't need filtering any more. I fitted mine before ever having ADSL before so cant say if it made my line any better or not. But a friend uses it and gave him 3 extra meg (bit of a bad line) the reviews also give good results.

Ash

Didn't think I needed to as thought the Openreach faceplate meant it has the filter (though maybe improved slightly? by disconnecting it from the extension)? Router is not plugged into the extension but into the master.

Edited by deleted (Thu 21-Apr-11 21:31:08)

Ah, sorry, yes you are right - in theory. The Openreach faceplate flters the ring wire.

I'm not sure I would trust it, given your below expected speed. Removing the ring wire cannot do any harm at all, and it has to be at the master. Though very occasionally doing it at the extension as well can help.

I take it the choke is behind the socket's plastic and the bottom half faceplate is the same as non openreach faceplates? Reason I ask is I'm thinking of fitting an adslnation (or solwise , austin taylor, clarity, etc) filtered faceplate for the best connection assuming they're still Ok with the openreach master socket..

Thanks!

Edited by deleted (Fri 22-Apr-11 20:53:08)

Yes, those filtered faceplates are compatible.

However, (given that I have a newish cable from the pole, straight into an NTE5 (pre-OR logo'ed)), I got an ADSL Nation XTE-2005 and their top ADSL cable to see if I got any improvement over a supplied-with-router ADSL cable and a very old BT Excelsus filter, and lost a couple of hundred kbps and no benefit to noise margin variability. So went back to what I had.

Thanks for the reply.

I've gone with an Austin Taylor faceplate (gave best performance in a review here: http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/cabling-faceplate-hel... and plastic Krone tool from Solwise, total inc. shipping £12. This should help neaten up my wiring as it'll cut down from having a filter dangling out of the master socket and from the extension. If I see similar to you (i.e. performance worse) then I will remove it. I also plan on disconnecting the bell wire at both ends. Maybe I should have tried my router in the test socket before splashing the cash but I figured it can't do any (hopefully) harm and it's so much neater having a filtered faceplate that offers filtered extensions.

Edited by deleted (Sat 23-Apr-11 15:26:45)

Disconnected the ring wire and fitted an Austin Taylor filtered faceplate with extension now pre-filtered by the faceplate. Stats very similar downlink attenuation reduced from 16 dB to 15.6dB (pretty much the same as in the test socket which was 15.5 dB). With/without the ring wire made no difference (though I haven't disconnected it at the extension socket). Still maxing out ADSL 1 of course. At least things are neater now without filters hanging off sockets and a better chance of maxing out ADSL 2