Filtered faceplate worth fitting or old wives tale?

seatbeltnoob

Just wondering whether it's worth getting a filtered faceplate if you have decent internet access. I am on full fibre with 80:20 speeds and I get 71mbps up and 18mbps down which is the highest I've seen for 80:20 connection. It doesn't use a filtered faceplate.

Would I benefit from it?

I'm inclined to think that those people who experience a boost by changing to a filtered faceplate isn't down to the faceplate itself but rather they just had a faulty faceplate to begin with and they just upgraded from a faulty to a working one.

My brother can only get ADSL and he's not tech inclined. He is getting 12mbps down which is painfully slowly, especialy with 3 kids all doing e-learning and zoom from home. He has a lot of issues and thought about getting a filtered faceplate fitted for him.

wongataa

You are pretty close to maxing out your connection.  A filtered face plate won't do anything for you.

Your brother's connection could well be the at the limit his line will support.  If it is a filtered face plate won't do anything.  A filtered face plate could only help if the filters in use are dodgy.

If there is no phone (or anything else that like a Sky box or fax machine that connects to a phone line) plugged into the phone line you don't actually need a filter anyway.  It is the phone side that is filtered.  The internet side is unfiltered.

matelodave

Generally a filtered faceplate just replaces the dangly plug-in filter.
Where it can make a difference is if he's got wired extensions coming from the master box - older (much older) phones and installations used to have a three-wire connection for the ringer and the third wire can introduce a bit of interference if it's still connected. Anew faceplate would not have the third connection - this explains it - https://kitz.co.uk/adsl/socket.htm

Mister_G

You will find that a genuine Openreach filtered faceplate (NTE5 Mk3 etc) tends to have better quality components in that are less susceptible to lightning strikes.  The plug in "dangly" filters are built down to a price and are often a source of failure.

seatbeltnoob

Mister_G said:

You will find that a genuine Openreach filtered faceplate (NTE5 Mk3 etc) tends to have better quality components in that are less susceptible to lightning strikes.  The plug in "dangly" filters are built down to a price and are often a source of failure.

It's hard to get hold of OR filtered faceplate. Majaority sold look so cheap, even the printing on them looks terrible.