Warning: Cheap ADSL filters could ruin your life

[Zak33]

WARNING

I have been reliably informed in the .connectivity forum that cheap ADSL Microfilters area bad idea.

In fact, lets face facts, it's not THAT suprising, BUT ITS A WARNING....

IF YOU ARE GETTING RANDOM DISCONNECTS with your router, maybe its a cheap filter.

And it COULD be a filter on a different phone in your house, not just the one the router is plugged into

Anybody wanna shed light of good and bad makes?

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[Funkstar]

I've had good luck with filters from http://www.adslnation.com/. Got a modified NTE-2005 Master Face Plate that i need to fit to my phone line and run a couple of extentions. You can't get much better than that, it's what BT used to use for their engineer installs.

[Capt Doufos]

Never had any problems with the Ebuyer 99p jobbies I bought a couple of years back. Running 2Mbps.

[eloquence]

Ditto the ebuyer jobbies - I've had ADSL for a couple of years now, and they've been no problem - so while some cheapies may be a no-no, it looks like ebuyer's one place for decent cheapy filters...

[Matt1eD]

I've used ebuyer cheapies at home and when setting up ADSL for other people. Always worked fine, but yes - some can ruin everything

[Konan555]

Yep - £3 filters drop me out. However, I'm about 3 miles off the exchange at 1Mb.

The same filters near the city centre where flawless.

However, i aint paying £20 for some posh one.... I'm just gonna make my own up.

[Tak]

I've had good luck with filters from http://www.adslnation.com/. Got a modified NTE-2005 Master Face Plate that i need to fit to my phone line and run a couple of extentions. You can't get much better than that, it's what BT used to use for their engineer installs.

I also recommend doing this, it's a nice neat solution, no need for filters for phone equipment.

Mine was installed for free when they did engineer installs a few years back.

[Ramedge]

hmmm this is interesting although it wont explain why my router keeps loosing link sing as a run it strait into the phone socket without a filter, but usb and pci modems continue to work