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Berserker

Berserker

Berserker

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What's the current 'state of the art' in inline ADSL microfilters? My filters are decent quality original BT type, and I have an NTE5 on the master socket, but I want to see if there's anything better.

No competitor names/links please.
 
Adslnation still seem to be top dogs for dongle and faceplate filters. xte-2005 range IIRC. Dunno if they are classed as competitors, delete if necessary :)
 
Not sure if they are or not. :confused:

Must admit, I looked at the XTE-2005, but my NTE5 has an RJ45 connector for the modem side and I can't tell what the XTE uses. :confused:

Edit: RJ11 :(
 
You'd have no problems replacing the BT NTE5 ADSL faceplate with an XTE-2005. I did exactly the same thing.
 
Carter said:
It's normally an RJ11-RJ11 cable, from router to filtered faceplate.
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Nope - it's absolutely definitely RJ45 at the NTE5 end. I do know the difference. :)

I was a very early adopter of broadband if that makes any difference (back in the days of engineer install only).
 
Berserker said:
Nope - it's absolutely definitely RJ45 at the NTE5 end. I do know the difference. :)

I was a very early adopter of broadband if that makes any difference (back in the days of engineer install only).
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Yeah, I had an engineer install [2001].
My router is connected to the xte-2005 faceplate via an RJ11 cable.

What have you got on your NTE5 now? Do you have a filtered faceplate?
Does the NTE5 have a detachable lower half? If so the filteredplate just takes its place.
 
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It's all as you suggest, but the ADSL port is wired to an extension socket in another room, and the extension cable has an RJ45 on the end. I really don't fancy even trying to change that. The other end of the extension does take an RJ11.

No idea why BT did it that way, but they did.
 
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