e.g.http://www.adslnation.com/products/xte2005.phpSounds good. I may do this next. My only concern is playing with the existing extension wiring - it's pretty tight in the Master so not much room for error when stripping and re-clamping down in the new faceplate. I'll have to take a closer look.
In other news, some gentle filing has got the study extension box nice and level now, with no gashes. Just a case of tidying up the cable etc now.
Thanks,
Tris.
Dont strip the wires when installing them into an IDC (Insulation Displacement Connector)... These are designed so that the IDC blades cut through the insulation and into the
*single-core* wire core to form a gas-tight joint, that should have been cold-welded. If you are re-terminating wires, then you need to move the wire a mm or so further on from the end so the re-termination is at a different point in the wire.Normally, wires should be long enough to allow 3 repairs, However, I have seen several that were "bar-tight" that required removing a few clamps to give enough slack.... Also, you may find that if the original wires were routed in through the back box, re-routing them directly to the front plate may give enough slack and also allow the (correct) removal of the faceplate to access the test socket whilst automatically disconnecting the house wiring. Just don't touch the two wires connected from the incoming line to the back box and ensure there are no other wires connected to these terminals.
One further point - if you do connect the unfiltered signal through to your study, then connect only *one* pair, normally to pins A and B on the back of the faceplate, to carry the signal - never connect the "pin 3" ring wire, since this provides a source of interference and isn't needed. The filter you install in your study will have an inbuilt ring capacitor to provide pin-3 ringing locally. Likewise, the master faceplate filter incorporates a ring capacitor for telephone sockets down-line of this filter, with their wires connected to pins 2, 3 and 5 on the faceplate filter.
Thanks for the info. The Solwise plate mentiond is nice in that it only has pins 2 and 5 for the incoming feed anyway (but allows 2, 3 and 5 to be connected if any daisy chaining is required).
Tris.
If you wish to be pedantic, yes. But 'analog extension wiring' is a convenient way to describe wiring connected downstream of the filter, and intended for analog equipment. Likewise, 'digital extension wiring' is a convenient way to describe an unfiltered extension, intended for ADSL.
case since he's installing new wiring. But in the general case, it defeats the object of using a filtered faceplate in the master socket which is to separate the signals as early as possible and eliminate any adverse effects which dodgy extension wiring may otherwise have on the ADSL signal.
Yes indeed - but in cases where there's any doubt about the quality of the extension wiring it's safer to run a *dedicated* unfiltered ('digital' in my parlance) extension just for ADSL. If you don't, there's little point in having a filtered faceplate in the master socket.
On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:25:21 +0100, "Roger Mills" mused:
Not neccesarily. Some extension wiring is in such a mess that spurious connections and wiring make ADSL unuasable whilst all the wiring is connected. A filtered faceplate means the ADSL only has to use one pair of one leg of this dubious wiring rather than bouncing up and down all of it. It can make a difference.
Well ok - but you could confuse the hell out of anyone coming after you if you have filtered and unfiltered extension wiring from your filtered master faceplate, but the unfiltered is not dedicated to ADSL - but is carrying voice as well, and subequently separated by further downstream filters.
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:01:33 +0100, "Roger Mills" mused:
It's not that difficult to work out if you know what you're doing. Once you whip the faceplate off you can soon see what's going on.
Yep, although I'll normally terminate unfiltered lines with RJ11 sockets to avoid confusion or fit the filtered extension sockets.
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