The Underscore Archives

2008/5/29 Tom Gidden <tom at gidden.net>:
>
> 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.
>

Isn't ADSL unfiltered and it's only the other devices that need filtering?

We've got a ADSLNation faceplate and having used separate filters
before I'd recommend it just for the lack of dangling boxes.

Biggest factor in our ADSL speed is being at least 3km from the
exchange with overhead wires (rate drops a bit in the wet), but hey
that's what you get for living in the 'country'

Andy