BT I-Plate promises to speed up ADSL connections by up to 60%; will it work for you?

iandav

Howdy,
I've been reading about disconnecting the bell line as an alternative to buying BT's I-Plate. After removing the cover of my BT box, I find there are four wires from the outside - black, white, green and orange - but only the white and orange are ( or have ever been) connected. Can anyone help, please? Regards, iandav.

espresso

iandav wrote: »

Howdy,
I've been reading about disconnecting the bell line as an alternative to buying BT's I-Plate...................

Perhaps you need to do a bit more reading!

Do you have any extension sockets wired to your master socket?

iandav

No, just the one socket.

espresso

iandav wrote: »

No, just the one socket.

:doh:

:rolleyes:

spankymonkey_2

i recently had trouble with my bt connection dropping now and again..after having a one sided conversation with an indian assistant they decided to send a technician out to me, the technician then changed all my external wiring and put me one of these boxes in! fingers crossed it works!!!

steveo3002

great tip about the bell wire

im being connected to broadband for the first time next week...i might as well yank the bell wire from day one right? cant lose can i ?

also thinking that i should wire up the extension socket i use with cat5 cable

tooconfused_2

Just tried this I had 4 wires connected to master socket removed wires connected to 3 and 4 just leaving 2 and 5 connected speed DROPPED from 4.8Meg to justover 1meg?...... reconnected them and speed back up to 4.8Meg....... any explanation for this?

penrhyn

tooconfused wrote: »

Just tried this I had 4 wires connected to master socket removed wires connected to 3 and 4 just leaving 2 and 5 connected speed DROPPED from 4.8Meg to justover 1meg?...... reconnected them and speed back up to 4.8Meg....... any explanation for this?

Did you remove them at the extension end as well?

Paul85_2

Those of you still having problems with bellwires may want to have a look at http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/socket.htm.

The site gives alot of detail on how to disconnect the bellwire as well as alot of other useful information regarding broadband problems including speed and disconnections. Some of the info provided is quite technical but worth a read if you really want to get the best out of the service your paying for.

tooconfused_2

penrhyn wrote: »

Did you remove them at the extension end as well?

No just removed them at the master socket as per the instructions in this thread.