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On 29 May 2008, at 10:54, David Goodwin wrote:

> On a similar thought, I boosted my "bandwidth" at home by 500kbits by
> removing the front cover of the BT master socket and plugging the  
> router
> direct into the socket below.


If you get an incoming call, you'd probably get disconnected though.   
Back before customer-installed microfilters, the BT engineer that  
fitted my ADSL failed to filter the extension sockets correctly.  Took  
ages before I figured out what was dropping the connection.

Microfilters are such a pain, though, with ridiculous failure rates.   
If I were fitting ADSL for someone now, I'd bring far more (and  
varied) microfilters than strictly necessary, as I've had multiple  
dodgy ones discovered during an install.  Plus, they're not always  
outright failures, but one will give a better bandwidth than another.

Tom

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Tom Gidden
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