Re: Lazy microfilter question

<grrdarnit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just to clarify, I'm being lazy, not the microfilter.

I just need to ask if I have a reasonable set up to my Wireless Modem
Router.........

The main BT box is located near my front door, but I need the modem to
be located in the middle room downstairs or the signal strength is low
in the rooms at the back of the house upstairs.

So I am using a telephone extension cable from the main box to where
the router is. The microfilter is on the end of the extension cable
(not at the main box) because the cable to connect the modem to the
microfilter is only 1 metre long.

Everything works fine set up like this but the connection seems a bit
slow.

So have I done this wrong and if so does anyone have any suggestion on
how to improve?

I suggest the first thing you try, if you can move the PC, is to temporarily
put the modem by the main socket, having disconnected the extension cable
and any other cables to other sockets if possible; in any case, disconnect
all other phones and their microfilters. Repeat you speed test (eg
downloading a large file) and see if it makes any difference. Also look at
the speed that is described in the "two computers" icon in the system tray
to the left of the clock - see how that speed varies with the position of
the router.

The speed for the modem next to the master socket will be the best speed
that you'll achieve, dependent on your distance from the exchange. This will
set in context the speed you are getting at the other end of the extension
cable, to show you how much improvement (if any) you could get.

Assuming that there is a difference between the master socket and extension
cable speeds... With the modem still at the master socket, plug in other
phones and extension lines one by one and repeat the speed test each time,
to see if one device causes significant reduction in speed. I found this to
be the case with one customer's setup: despite trying three different makes
of filter, one particular phone caused dramatic reduction in speed even
measured at the master socket. Luckily the customer didn;t use that phone,
only his various cordless phones, so he could manage without it.

I *think* that it shouldn't make any significant difference whether you put
the filter at the master socket (with the extension plugged into the
filter's *DSL* output, not its *phone* output) or whether you put the filter
at the far end of the cable as you have it, given that the DSL output of a
filter is a straight-through connection and it is only the phone output
which is filtered. Having said this, I have seen suggestions that the former
is better if the signal strength is a bit low. However most extension leads
have a BT plug at one end and a BT socket at the other, so plugging a BT
plug into an RJ11 DSL output socket of the filter and plugging an RJ11 plug
into a BT socket on the extension would require a couple of BT-RJ11
converters, one of each gender.


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