Too many ADSL filters

Pincher

After countless ADSL modems, necessitating ADSL filters on all the sockets, and then faceplates with ADSL filters built-in, I have a whole box of these things in case I need to re-decorate and re-wire.

And now I find out about VDSL!

Just had the BT engineer put in the Infinity box, which comes with a new Master socket, with the ADSL (or maybe VDSL) filter already built-in, so all the secondary sockets get is the phone signal. This means all the faceplates and ADSL filter dongles are now redundant.

I don't see how I would go back to ADSL unless I move to some retirement home in the country somewhwere.

Soon eBay will be flooded by ADSL filters.

forgotmyname

Never used the plugin filters. I had the original filter/faceplate fitted when broadband 1st came out and BT had to install it.

No plug in filters back then.

brewerdave

Can't see ebay being "flooded" with 2nd hand filter/splitters-they cost pennies to start with -everyone will have had a couple with every new modem/router for about 7 or more years....I've got 6 sitting on a shelf right in front of my eyes now!!!:rotfl:

Pincher

Just hate the idea of landfill.

Give it to charity? That's why these charity parcels contain cheap Toys'R Us toys. Imagine a starving Phillipino child opens up the pack and there's a hardly used ADSL filter, that is just too cruel.

brewerdave

It's the same with modem telephone cables and Cat 5 ethernet cables - I've literally got a drawer full as every internet ready device seems to come with one!!

penrhyn

OP will be pleased to know that a VSDL faceplate is backwards compatible with ADSL should they return to non fibre broadband.

Nada666

brewerdave wrote: »

Can't see ebay being "flooded" with 2nd hand filter/splitters-they cost pennies to start with -everyone will have had a couple with every new modem/router for about 7 or more years

They're a tenner, aren't they? Or £6 or £7. Or am I thinking of something else?

I was trying to fathom out some shenanigans with my connection a few weeks ago and was annoyed not to find any in pound shops.

kwikbreaks

If you buy a single filter from a full price source then yes they'll cost that or more but you do get a couple with most ADSL routers and they don't have any active components to wear out so the ones you got way way back when you first got ADSL will still work just fine and they will have been topped up by freebies with any replacement routers you've had.

As a "to sell" item on eBay they are worthless.

brewerdave

Nada666 wrote: »

They're a tenner, aren't they? Or £6 or £7. Or am I thinking of something else?

I was trying to fathom out some shenanigans with my connection a few weeks ago and was annoyed not to find any in pound shops.

...Haven't actually ever bought one........ having looked on shelves and in drawers I have 8 of the things spare :rotfl:but a quick search brings up availability for ~ £1.50-£5 - Can't believe anyone actually buys one tho' -unless they are the sort who throw anything they don't need away with the packaging!:)

Pincher

penrhyn wrote: »

OP will be pleased to know that a VSDL faceplate is backwards compatible with ADSL should they return to non fibre broadband.

So even if I do go back to ADSL, the dongles are still redundant.

Hands up who still have Centronics paralell printer cables sitting in a box? I know I can put it in the bin, but I really wish I could recycle them. They will take batteries in the blue bin, but not computer cables.

They just gave us a blue wheelie bin, and a brown food waste bin. I have to put the news paper in the wheelie bin, along with all the glass and tins. After buying and using compostible bags for the food waste, the bin man tips the brown bin into the blue wheelie bin, on top of the dry news papers, and the glass bottles and tins I WASHED. The whole thing is then hoisted by the robot arm into the dumper truck, all mixed together!

I think the council has a dump five miles away, which takes electronic stuff.

penrhyn

Shirley you have a local scrappy man that comes round collecting metal and such like, they usually take cables for the copper.