Microfilters are Important for a Great Broadband Connection

Edinburghlass_2

You should have a filter on each socket that has a phone plugged into it.

Generally you will get 2 filters from your bb provider so you would have to buy the other four yourself. I noticed in my local Tesco Extra that they are selling them now, can't remember the exact price but they were pretty reasonable.

JohalaReewi

LOST wrote:

the one wire coming into the house is not going into a single master socket - it is connected to all other 6 extensions:

long story - used to have an exchange system - lightening storm blew something in the box - bt engineer put all wires together as a 'qwik fix' as else it wudda cost £300 to replace exchange system.

wot do i do then?

I guess that makes all your extensions master sockets

You will need a microfilter for each telephone socket that has got something (eg. phone, fax, modem, answering machine, sky box) plugged into it. Bear in mind if you buy cheap microfilters, they may underperform (or fail) if your telephone wire signal quality is marginal. Which it could be in the case of your 'qwik fix' setup. I don't work for BT but have had a lot of success with thier microfilters where other makes have failed.

LOST

cheers people - will try your suggestions!

looks like i'm looking for 4 microfilters - 2 free with bband provider (i hope)

Madasafish_Customer_Care

Hi LOST,

I'll need to double check this tomorrow but i'm pretty certain that the max number of microfilters you should be using at one time is four. I believe that if there is more than that in play than they can start to interfere with each other.

Do you use all six of your phone sockets?

Kind regards,
Samara

LOST

Madasafish_Customer_Care wrote:

Hi LOST,

I'll need to double check this tomorrow but i'm pretty certain that the max number of microfilters you should be using at one time is four. I believe that if there is more than that in play than they can start to interfere with each other.

Do you use all six of your phone sockets?

Kind regards,
Samara

all six sockets have a telephone attached - but only 4 of those telephones are ever used regularly - so I could just unplug the unused ones if its going to cause probs

Madasafish_Customer_Care

Hi LOST,

I've just reconfirmed with the tech team that the max amount of filters that you should ever have fitted on one phone line is 4. It may work with more microfilters however it's very likely that any more than four will cause problems with your speed and connection.

Of course, if you've got two or more seperate phone lines running into your house (independent of one another) you only need the microfilters to be fitted on the line (and it's extensions) that has the broadband service installed.

Kind regards,
Samara

JohalaReewi

That is interesting. I have got 6 microfilters on my setup and it works.

Must try removing a few and see if anything changes.

espresso

A better way is to have only one filter that filters all of the extension wiring.

laura1976

Hi, I've just discovered this thread and I'm hoping for a bit of advice. I got my talktalk broadband up and running last week having only used dialup before. I'm chuffed to bits with the speed and downloads but I now have a problem with the phoneline.........it crackles and hisses. Now, I've got the PC in the dining room and the only phone socket is in the hall, so I have the phone on my desk and the modem plugged into a microfilter, then that into an extension, extension goes under the floor thru the cellar, back up in the hall and plugs into a doubler socket so I can use the hall phone too. Now I have another microfilter but if I plug that in the hall I get "no dial-tone" from the broadband. The modem lead isn't long enough to run under the floor so I'm guessing I need to buy a longer one so it can plug directly into a microfilter in the hall, but I need the proper lead with the right plugs either end. Not being very techy I'm stumped, would this solve the problem and can anyone suggest where I could buy one and what I would ask for please?:o

espresso

It sounds like you understand the problem i.e. if you put a filter into the hall socket, you are preventing the ADSL signal getting to your modem in the dining room.

Extension cables available here.

HTH