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Fitting an ADSL faceplate to your BT line box

Fitting an ADSL faceplate to your BT line box

I’m going to talk about how to fit an NTE5 compatible ADSL filtered faceplate to your BT master socket. This will allow you to plug your broadband modem router directly into the BT master line box, rather than having to use an ADSL micro filter. Broadband reliability problems I’ve previously written about some of my broadband problem [...]

Stopping junk post, annoying phone calls, and unwanted faxes

Stopping junk post, annoying phone calls, and unwanted faxes

If you are in the UK and receive unsolicited post, phone calls or faxes there are several services you can sign up with to reduce these unwanted disturbances to your life. There is the telephone preference service, the fax preference service, and the mailing preference service. There is also a baby mailing preference service if you receive baby [...]

Find out the cost of calling any telephone number

Find out the cost of calling any telephone number

Often you will see UK telephone numbers with codes such as 087xx, and a price for calling that number will be listed. How do you know that the price is actually correct? I would have thought the BT would have a simple page where you can enter a telephone number into a box and be told instantly the correct cost of calling it. I've been unable to [...]