Microfilters

--Tony--

Adsl will be up soon.

Quick question as I'm going wireless the router will be by the master socket. All my phone points are daisy chained around the house. Is it OK to run them all from the one Microfilter located at the master socket? Is there a maximum amount of phones or distance of cable you can run from each filter.

I dont want to buy lots of filters if I don't need them.
Thanks

frak

Does the master socket have all the other sockets hard wired from inside the box or do you run extensions from the plug ?

CrazyChemist_2

I'm about to do this - we have a master plug where the broadband router will go, but there is an upstairs extension which we have installed ourselves which runs from the outside of a box via a two way splitter - will this splitter plug in and work ok when inside the filter? The cable is 15m long so is that ok will the upstairs phone still work?

--Tony--

They all run from the front.

Ted_Hutchinson

Ebuyer Extra Value ADSL Splitter/Micro Filter 5 plus delivery ebuyer Total: £7.98

--Tony--

I get the one filter with the router and hoped I could just plug the whole house phone network into the one filter.

Its not so much the cost but also having one of these stuck on each outlet.

I have ADSL in my office (out in the garage), there I have a fax and phone running off one filter which is fine but I ran a third line into the house, I can make calls from this one but it never rings which was the whole point in the line into the house for when i'm making drinks orlunch etc.

This was why I was wondering if there is a limit to what you can run off one filter.

blinky

You need one per phone point where there is a phone plugged in.

The filter is to remove the ADSL signal from voice calls.

CrazyChemist_2

blinky wrote:

You need one per phone point where there is a phone plugged in.

The filter is to remove the ADSL signal from voice calls.

So as long the extension cable comes out from after the filter, everything will be ok? I'm planning on getting the one filter and then plugging my upstairs phone cable into it via the splitter - that sound ok? :beer:

--Tony--

If you read this:

http://www.clarity.it/telecoms/adsl_faceplate.htm

You can get a replacement front to your master box the wire your whole house either via the front (or back) in the normal way.

What it does not say is how many phones you can plug into a filter or how much cable, I have to assume its the same as a nomal phone line ie ren=4.

Its vey confusing as everyone keeps saying one per a phone outlet which is not true, once a section of cable have been filtered no futher filters are required for that section but no computers can be plugged in either as the signal is now filtered out.

JimArnold

As long as all extensions run from the voice side of the splitter then you will be fine

If you want a neat result buy one of the replacement faceplates which have a built in splitter eg http://www.adslnation.com/phpapps/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=90

after that buy one with a tail so you can neatly tuck it out of the way
http://www.adslnation.com/phpapps/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=54

The worst choice is the standard plug in splitter esp with a extension splitter then plugged into it!

Rex_Mundi

I've run 4 lines off one microfilter using splitters with no problems. I had 2 sky boxes+2 telephone extensions running off it. I never had a problem with any of the connections.

The distance wont make a difference. If the telephone works already with the extension lines, then it will work plugged into the microfilter. The filter just splits your outside line into your broadband and your telephone signals.