ADSL FacePlate Filter

Did not expect much ADSL speed improvement, wanted to get rid of dangling mircofilters and tidy up the cabling with this faceplate.But I also saw a speed increase! Not a lot, but in a low speed rural area, any little helps. Since it's just a filter in the faceplate, I don't see how that can work, but it does. Something to do with reducing to a minimum the length of the bell wire before the filter. That is alleged to impair performance, and apparently is correct.Shan't bore you with details, did comparative tests - with just the speed tester hogging bandwidth, using the same cables to router and computer. One set of tests using standard BT NTE5 outlet with dangling microfilter and another set of tests with this adapter faceplate. Went from 3.87 to 4.15 Mb/s, consistently. Which is about as good as it can get round here without paying a packet for fibre-optic, basically to let moving adverts on webpages load faster.Used an OOKLA driven web speed tester (loads available on the web), and the same server for consistency.So I would recommend fitting one of these faceplates.A bit more :-Since I'm a bit of a nerd, I wondered if the old dangling microfilter was poor and the reason for the speed increase, so having a number spare from all the modems & routers aquired over the last few years, I did some tests on the non-faceplate setup. Some mirofilters (all 3 BT emblazoned ones for example) were a bit slower than others. Not a lot, varied between about 3.5 and 3.87 Mb/s. So worth selecting a good 'un. Using a telephone extension lead with a filter at each end didn't seem to make any difference, it all depends on the microfilter separating the ADSL.Also, some DSL 6P4C ("RJ11") cables from filter/faceplate to router, were better than others when tested. However, all my Ethernet (8P8C = RJ45) cables were the same, even the 50metre monster, despite being cheap.I bought some good quality cable to connect from faceplate to router, and even 10metres of RJ11 doesn't drop the speed.So if you live in a marginal area, make sure you have good gear. It matters.

An excellent piece of electronics that every telephone Master Socket should have! If you replace this faceplate at the Master Socket (commonly referred to as BT socket), it means you do not need [the dangling!] ADSL filter on every telephone extension socket -- meaning tidy wiring throughout the house, i.e., a single filtering is done at the Master Socket and extension sockets will be pure voice lines free of the ADSL data signals (just what used to be before the Internet was born).Some useful tips: (1) if you're using a telephone extension, [if possible] avoid running pins 3 and 4 (modern telephone equipment don't need these -- only run pins 2 and 5 and you should note an improved data speed as compared to connecting pins 3 and 4; (2) if you are running an ADSL cable from a Master Socket (pins A and B on the faceplate) over a few metres such as to upstairs, avoid using flat telephone line (such as CW1311 type), instead use twisted pair telephone line (CW1308 type also used in alarm systems).Together with the tips mentioned, I noticed a significant improvement of internet data speed with this faceplate. The ISP test speed at Master Socket (with all wiring disconnected and test run by ISP) was just under 6 Mbps but I could only get around 3.3 Mbps as my router was located upstairs. With the filtering and tidying up achieved with the Tamar faceplate + doing away with pins 3 and 4 on extension lines + using CW1308 type twisted pair for connection to my ADSL router located about 15m away, I now get the full test speed of around 6 Mbps. Very hard to apportion the contribution of this ADSL filter in speed improvement (without proper measurements) but well worth the money even on aesthetics alone (getting rid of the dangling ADSL filters), and in addition no doubt that doing the filtering job at a master socket has its pluses of keeping the ADSL signal clean and isolated thereby improving the data rate.

I was suffering from low download speed from my ISP, contacting the ISP they would tell me to remove the plate from the telephone and reconnect their ADSL filter then connect the broadband and telephone cable. While I was online they would increase the speed. I was told initially by them there was a problem with the BT telephone plate, I replaced it, a few months later I had the same problem. After reviewing what others had said about this and the possible increase of 20%, thought I had nothing to lose. When I received the ADSL filter plate my download speed was approximately 4000 kbps with uploadd speeds of around 50 kbps, over the course of the months I'm now on 10856 kbps with an upload speed of 945 kbps. (My kids love to go on YouTube or watch the BBC IPlayer, now we can watch it on line without it stopping and waiting to catch up).Do remember these speeds do not happen overnight, the upload and download speeds will slowly increase or decrease depending on the telephone line you're using. Initially, I saw very little increase then slowly the speed of both download and uploaded increased. Initially I purchased this for a proposed 20% speed increase, this exceeded the expectation. There could be other factors during the period, e.g. upgrade of line, however this is the fastest speed I've ever had from my ISP. Would I recommend it, Yes.

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