Douglas - think of a microfilter as something you attach to a telephone rather than to a socket - that is you only need one for each and every wired telephone on your system, not for sockets with a data only connection - that said you will need an adaptor to convert from the data cable which runs between the bt socket and router and a microfilter performs this function perfectly. If you are going to use a dial up connection you will of course need a modem cable direct between your dial up modem and wall socket and I see no reason why this shouldn't plug in to a microfilter either via the voice or data socket depending on which is on the end of your modem cable. Of course if you are going to use a wired router on an extension socket then you shouldn't need a back up dial up account in the way mark describes. Adrian Higginbotham Accessibility and inclusion adviser British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Internal extension #2287 Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/ BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Harrison Sent: 25 August 2006 11:54 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Another "wireless connection" query Thanks Adrian - that encourages me to try the wired router plugged into an extension approach. Presumably I would need a microfilter on the main socket and any other extensions so that they could be used for normal telephone traffic. I wonder whether a dial up connection would work through a microfilter? Someone yesterday (possibly Mark) mentioned that he has a dial up account which he retains for emergency use if his main wireless connection fails. Douglas On 25 Aug 2006 at 11:06, Adrian Higginbotham wrote: > Douglas I've experience no problems with a wired router plugged in to an > extension socket. An off the shelf one not BT, and self installed. > Wireless may still have some benefits but the exension is the cheaper > option by far. > > > Adrian Higginbotham > -- Douglas Harrison ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq