The invention concerns a method of controlling an adaptation of a filter, and a controller and a computer program product to execute this method. The filter is an adaptive finite impulse response (=FIR) filter for modelling an echo path impulse response for echo cancellation in a telecommunications connection between a first terminal providing a near-end signal at a first end of the telecommunications connection and a second terminal providing a far-end signal at another end of the telecommunications connection. In a multi-windowing scheme, a plurality of filter segments and segments of the far-end signal is determined in the time domain. An energy level associated to an individual segment of the far-end signal is compared with an energy level associated to a sample of the near-end signal. In dependence on the result of the comparison of the energy levels, the adaptation of an individual filter segment associated to the individual segment of the far-end signal is enabled or inhibited.