FTTC and faceplates

[lamboman]

Hi all,

I currently have one of these faceplates in the house:

It's the only socket in the house. Currently we have a terrible ADSL connection and are moving to Plusnet's 76/20 fibre. The extension cable in the picture runs under the carpet for 3 metres or so to some cabinets, then there's an ADSL filter on the end which my modem is plugged into.

It isn't at all viable to move everything in order to change cables (hi-fi, TV, computers, cabinets, and finally carpet would have to be moved) and there aren't power sockets near that phone socket. So I basically need to keep this setup as it is, just swapping out the ADSL modem for the Openreach box.

Would it be possible to have a non-filtered faceplate installed (NTE5) and use the ADSL filter as per usual? As far as I understand it is technically possible and that the faceplates they commonly use simply move the filter into the faceplate, however whether BT offer options that meet my requirements is a different matter.

Thanks all!

 

[lamboman]

Sorry about that, image is now fixed.

Thanks for the replies, was rather urgent as the £100 cashback offer finishes soon (apparently it alternates sometimes between Quidco and TCB but I'd rather be on the safe side!).

The cable in the picture is a bog standard 5m long phone extension cable, not a proper extension to another wall socket. I'm assuming that the cable would be OK to a point, however as bremen1874 said, ought to do it properly. For some reason it completely crossed my mind, just going to run a long RJ-11 twisted pair cable along the edge of the room (bit like the Data Extension kit without the socket on the end) and use the filtered faceplate, and leave the old cable for the phone.

 

[lamboman]

If you use Cat5e (or similar) you have a cable with multiple twisted pairs. This allows you to keep the voice and VDSL signals separate but going down a single cable.

If you use solid core you can connect the cable to the connections of the back of the NTE5 faceplate and avoid having anything external plugged in. Terminate the other end of the cable with a double faceplate and you've got a nice neat job.

It'll be just an off-the-shelf CAT5e cable with RJ11 connectors, the cable needs to go directly to a cabinet and to the modem inside, so no other sockets needed. The current cable is under the carpet so I might as well use it, less effort, however at least if that cable goes bad I could terminate behind the cabinet (or even in the cabinet to be weird).

Thanks

 

[lamboman]

Be aware that the modems need a decent amount of air as they tend to run hot. They're really designed to be wall mounted.

How hot are we talking? I've got a Speedtouch 546 at the moment that runs burning hot in the cabinet if it's put down normally, but runs acceptably warm once propped up on its side.

Replace that cable, or expect poor sync speeds.

Do it right from the beginning tbh.

Am doing so, new cable's in the post