On 22/08/2016 10:25, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 22/08/16 10:05, Big Les Wade wrote:
lid posted
The basics are..

you want a filtered base plate as the first thing on the line.

from there you run an unfiltered wire to the router and a filtered
wire to all the phones.

It isn't going to make a lot of difference how long the wires are in
the average house.

The BT face plate has two sockets on the front the filtered phone
socket and the unfiltered DSL socket but it also has connections for
wires at the rear so you can run a wire for either to a remote
location without having to plug anything in to the front.

Use a proper twisted cable for the extensions and you will be fine.


The theory is ..

the modem in the router does all the filtering for the DSL side of the
system so it needs an unfiltered line.

So why is the base plate filtered?

WEll dennis is as per usual spouting stuff he doesn't understand.
Actually there is NO filtering in the ADSL modem to speak of.

Balls.
The modem uses DSPs to do all the filtering it needs.