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Author Topic: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?  (Read 14375 times)

burakkucat

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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2018, 12:33:40 AM »

In all seriousness, an NTE5/A & Mk 3 SSFP is far better in terms of quality than the NTE5C & Mk 4 SSFP.
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #16 on: March 24, 2018, 12:46:12 AM »

Really? Fair enough, TIL.

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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #17 on: March 24, 2018, 09:11:37 PM »

Went back today and opened it up.

There is an extension in the bedroom, that's what the blue and white is I assume, right?

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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2018, 09:28:55 PM »

There is an extension in the bedroom, that's what the blue and white is I assume, right?

Yes, that's correct.
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2018, 09:57:49 AM »

Mk 3 SSFP ordered over the weekend and dispatched this morning, thanks for your help burakkucat.  :thumbs:
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #20 on: March 26, 2018, 04:32:33 PM »

Just to be sure, with the lower-front face-plate removed (as in your photograph, above), the extension socket in the bedroom should be "dead". If it's not, then a "folly" has been committed with the wiring.  :-X
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #21 on: March 26, 2018, 05:02:58 PM »

I'll try and check, but I don't actually plan on having a landline installed. Maybe I'll borrow one.
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #22 on: March 26, 2018, 06:20:10 PM »

I assume you mean handset not landline (you won't get broadband without a landline!).

I's worth having a cheap corded handset to check for noise on the line (i.e. to be able to dial 17070). Argos sell a cheap one: http://www.argos.co.uk/product/3924358
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #23 on: March 26, 2018, 07:02:31 PM »

Yes, obviously by landline I mean a landline telephone. :)

You're right though, a cheap corded phone would be handy if I have issues.
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #24 on: March 27, 2018, 04:17:35 PM »

...or you need 999 and your mobile's flat.
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #25 on: March 27, 2018, 07:33:23 PM »

Mk 3 SSFP ordered over the weekend and dispatched this morning, thanks for your help burakkucat.  :thumbs:
I'll try and check, but I don't actually plan on having a landline installed. Maybe I'll borrow one.

No need for a filtered faceplate if there's nothing to filter.
An unfiltered faceplate would be best for you.

AAISP sell them. I think run-it-direct might too.
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #26 on: March 27, 2018, 07:56:07 PM »

Or just disconnect that extension wiring and get a suitable cable (RJ11 to BT) to plug the modem straight into a phone socket.
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #27 on: March 27, 2018, 10:43:53 PM »

lol, I said I don't plan on it, not that I won't, I'd rather the option be there just in case. :)
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #28 on: March 30, 2018, 08:06:43 AM »

I am using the straight-through unfiltered DSL-only faceplates from the Andrews and Arnold shop (http://aa.net.uk/broadband-accessories.html) which J0hn referred to in his earlier post. (You don't have to be an A&A ISP-customer to use the shop.)

I have three three lines, so three NTE5s, no phones. But unfortunately a recent BT man replaced one of the NTE5as with an NTE5c which has a different layout to the older NTE5 backs so this means that I can't use the above mentioned straight-through plate as it won't fit.
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Re: Should I get a pre filtered face plate?
« Reply #29 on: March 30, 2018, 09:07:58 AM »

I am using the straight-through unfiltered DSL-only faceplates from the Andrews and Arnold shop (http://aa.net.uk/broadband-accessories.html) which J0hn referred to in his earlier post. (You don't have to be an A&A ISP-customer to use the shop.)

I have three three lines, so three NTE5s, no phones. But unfortunately a recent BT man replaced one of the NTE5as with an NTE5c which has a different layout to the older NTE5 backs so this means that I can't use the above mentioned straight-through plate as it won't fit.

As per ejs’s comment, wouldn’t a BT to RJ11, connected to an unfiltered faceplate (or the test socket), do exactly the same job?

Speaking from a position of ignorance as I don’t have the bits in front of me to examine.
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