ADSL Nation NTE-2005 Master face plate

[Brian69]

It's quite simple. You just transfer any wiring that maybe on the faceplate (the one you have on the master at the moment) to the filter faceplate like this, 2 to 2 5 to 5 3 to 3 any wires you have connected to 1, 4, or 6 you can leave disconnected.

You will need to re-connect the ring line (the one to 3) because you will no longer need plug in micro-filters, and your phones may need the ring line. It is filtered in the faceplate filter, so causes no problems.

If you have no wires, then you just swap the two faceplates.

Don't worry, it comes with full instructions

[samperry209]

oh ok its just im bit nervous ... but ok!

[Stumpy]

@Brian ... which remind me ... when the BT engineer came before he started going on about not needing the ring wire connected, in amongst all his mutterings - I'll have to double check see if he's fitted that back or not (apparently my attempt at wiring didn't come up to scratch as it left little "tails" on the wires so he redid it all).

@sam - its easy enough - I was a complete novice too (see above!) but as long as you make a note of which slot numbers the current wires are in, you can just transfer them like for like.

As I was going to be using an extension socket rather than the main one to plug in my router, I also needed to isolate the wires from the extension socket and, instead of transferring those like for like (ie, 2 to 2, etc), those had to be transferred to a seperate set of slots called A & B - it explains in the leaflet which goes where (wires from 2 in the old slot go to "B", and 5 to "A").

Basically A & B bypass the filter inbuilt into the faceplate, so that you don't end up "double filtering" at the extension end.

Hmmm ... question, @Brian - not that I use any other extensions, but I do have another extension upstairs - does this mean that all those wires in the numbered slots are filtered? Obviously the master socket is, but does this negate the need for an additional filter on by bedroom extension?

[newbuilder]

any wires coming out of A & B are unfiltered.

any wires coming out of the numbered section (2&5 etc) are filtered an do not need an additional filter in their extensions.

[Brian69]

Whenever I fitted/fit a filter faceplate, I always make sure the ring wire is in place. The reason for doing this is I do not know what phones you are going to use, and do not want a recall just to connect a ring wire. If your phones are working o.k thats fine.

To wire other extensions Just for telephone (no ADSL) you can.

(1) use the numbered terminals at the faceplate filter at the master.

(2) depending on what sort of socket, filter you have at the router extension they may also be numbered terminals there, you could also use those.

(3) if you have other extensions they will be connected to the numbered terminals.

[lizziefrench]

Sorry for jumping in.
Ive just removed the master socket plate. I read somewhere that there should not be a red wire.
But the wires on the master plate are
5-white
3- black
2-red
and a green pushed back against the wall. No other wires but i have an extenion upstaires ?

thank you

[Brian69]

That sounds like alarm cable. They will be the wires to your upstairs extension.

[samperry209]

yeah ive only got the master in my whole house and everything is connected to that

my xte-2005 i think will be here tuesday so ill let you know how i get on..!!

all im looking for is a more stable connection as my nm is up and down like a yo yo!!

because the highest ive ever achieve out of my line is 2560kbps but that was before dlm now its 2528kbps but that takes a couple of resets on the router to achieve that!


ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 2528 kbps 416 kbps
Line Attenuation 63.5 db 31.5 db
Noise Margin 7.2 db 14.0 db

i know i can get roughly 2600kbps but i need a very very good filter hence xte-2500

[Brian69]

Hi Samperry.
When you say everthing is connected to the master, I assume you mean to the socket on the front?
If this is so, then you should have a filter plugged in at the master, with the router connected there, and the extensions just for telephones.
It can all be made to work with filters elsewhere, and an extension plugged directly into the master socket, but this leads to problems caused by the ring wire in the extension cable.
However you have done it, a faceplate filter will solve any ring wire problems.

[samperry209]

its conneted like this

master,filter,skybox connections with phone in and on the other side is the broadband line.

i did completely unscrew the whole thing back in may and i noticed their was only 2 wires connected

ring wire problems? like?