Try your master socket for better results

[Savaloyking]

I have read a lot of Muppet13's posts on this Website and I think I know him. If you have a triangle for a head and really are a muppet I suggest that you move your power socket to the hallway so Jo can hoover more effectively.

[Saturday]

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EDIT: Misread reread your post

[Muppet13]

I think my problems are with the wireless connection I have to the router (Netgear WG111T). When the icon in the system tray shows green my download speed is considerably better than when it shows orange. Is there anyway of having a wired connection to the router if I haven't got a LAN port?

[Parva]

I've just tried plugging directly into socket behind faceplate to see if it would make any difference and am a little puzzled on one figure.

Basically I get around 6304 down and 768 up and that's pretty much the same with or without faceplate as is noise at 7.0 and 9.0 but the line attenuation changed dramatically!

Plugged into faceplate - 55.0 31.5
Plugged into master - 15.5 31.5

I've tried it twice and got same results. I've no idea what that means or why the figures vary so widely!

[kaybing27]

I have just unscrewed the faceplate of my master socket, downstairs to see what it was like, lots of wires i see... Is really easy to install the XTE-2005 as everyone says?? What's the process like, any soldering or anything difficult?

I use an extension upstairs for my broadband, are you saying that if were to install this new faceplate, I would get the same speeds as I do from plugging my router from the socket behind the faceplate (test socket?) as I would upstairs, through the extension --> microfilter socket?

Does it matter that my extension upstairs doesn't seem to be the same type of socket than the master one downstairs? (it is smaller and older looking) or is that the difference, one is master the other is extension.

Thanks alot, bear with me.

[NewsreadeR]

I have just unscrewed the faceplate of my master socket, downstairs to see what it was like, lots of wires i see... Is really easy to install the XTE-2005 as everyone says?? What's the process like, any soldering or anything difficult?

Yes - very easy, how ever may look daunting

I use an extension upstairs for my broadband, are you saying that if were to install this new faceplate, I would get the same speeds as I do from plugging my router from the socket behind the faceplate (test socket?) as I would upstairs, through the extension --> microfilter socket?

Yes

Does it matter that my extension upstairs doesn't seem to be the same type of socket than the master one downstairs? (it is smaller and older looking) or is that the difference, one is master the other is extension.

Should not do, the one downstairs should be the master and so has more circuitry

Welcome to skyuser.co.uk btw

[kaybing27]

Wow, thanks for the quick reply, as soon as I get sky broadband I will deffinately be getting a XTE-2005, does the one off adslnation come with a 'puncher' thing to punch in the wires, or does that need to be ordered seperately?

Thanks for you help! If you have any spare time could you answer my questions in another thread i have raised about joining sky? I will be very gratefull.

Thanks!

[NewsreadeR]

does the one off adslnation come with a 'puncher' thing to punch in the wires, or does that need to be ordered seperately?

Needs to be ordered seperately

If you have any spare time could you answer my questions in another thread i have raised about joining sky?

Will go and have a look for you now

[Muppet13]

Sorry Newsreader, can I just clarify here. Doesn't the fitting of an XTE-2005 turn kaybing 27's extension socket upstairs into a filtered voice line to which he is unable to connect his router? Just keen to clarify this as this was the problem I had. Wanted to run my router by my computer from an extension socket in a different room to the master socket (no power by master socket!?!) but by connecting wires to terminals 2, 3 and 5 I got filtered voice lines that I couldn't run the router from. I understand that connection to the A and B terminals gives you an unfiltered line to the extension from which you can run the router from (but therefore cancelling out the benefit of buying the filtered faceplate in the first place).

[kaybing27]

That is what i was also thinking too... once you get the xte-2500 installed in the master, is that the only place you can run your router from, or can u microfilter an extension and it work just as good. I think you've already answered that question with a yes, but just to clarify... or would it be better to set up my router downstairs (its not far it all. ~5m), wirelessy an have a wireless connection from the master, rather than a wired connection from an extension.

Hope you understand me, confusing myself here a bit... lol

Ta