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

Cougar

g6zru wrote: »

As previously stated just cut the bell wire at the master socket

If you're contemplating cutting anyithing, be careful that there's enough wire left to rewire it if you need to. You'd be better advised to pull the wire upwards out of the clip so that you can reverse the procedure. A comms engineer carries a special hook tool for just this purpose.

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g6zru wrote: »

As previously stated just cut the bell wire at the master socket. Also be aware that any increase in speed will only be in increments of 500kbps, i.e unless you get a speed increase of over 500kbps (for at least 3 days), your IP Profile, which determines the actual speed, will remain the same.
Fred

I thought only older sockets had a bell wire.

How do I identify the bell wire ???

inch71

Can anyone tell me if these iplates do the same job as the micro filters you have to plug into your phone sockets for broadband. When I joined Sky Broadband, I was sent a number of Micro filters, and was told to plug them into every phone socket that I use.

notbritishgas

inch71 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if these iplates do the same job as the micro filters you have to plug into your phone sockets for broadband. When I joined Sky Broadband, I was sent a number of Micro filters, and was told to plug them into every phone socket that I use.

No they do not, you still need a filter in every socket where a phone (or other device) is plugged.

reginald_2

I live about 4km from my exchange and I could only get speeds of 2meg. BT said it was due to distance. I didn't have a BT master socket only a junction box so I installed a socket with a built in ADSL filter at my first socket by my computer. All the extensions are now filtered from this box no more little dsl microfilters. Speed went straight up to over 6meg. This was due to the interference of the extension sockets being removed. I complained to BT that they should have known for the last two years that I should be able to get a faster speed but the still insist that my line will only receive 2meg ( on their postcode estimate) yet the hub page say 6.5. So BT speed accessment is based on what you get and if you have a fault on your line they will blame it on the distance from the exchange even though your neighbour might be getting double or triple your speed. I would not accept BT saying that this is your line max they stiil get paid the same if its 1meg or 8meg. Ask your next door neighbour what their speed is. Get a ADSL filtered master box. Cut of all wired extensions and use wireless digital phones. It suits BT to have customers on slower speeds as it keeps the overall bandwidth down so they don't need to spend as much on new equipment. Eight people at 1meg is the equivalent one person at 8meg but eight times the revenue.

jedge1939

A couple of things to note before you buy an iPlate or cut the bell wire:
1. Before you do anything make sure you measure accurately what speed you're getting at several times of day. Performance often varies considerably depending on the contention on the line. A good, and easy to use, site is https://www.speedtest.net.
2. As remarked earlier in the thread the iPlate/bell wire stuff only minimises interference in your internal wiring. If you're getting really bad performance you should get your ISP to get BT to check the external factors. I had the cable from the telegraph pole to my house and the cable from the pole to the (green) junction box in the road replaced before they finally sent a proper braodband engineer, who discovered that there was only one cable from the exchange to the junction box and that was a very old and lossy aluminium cable that they weren't prepared to dig up and replace. So I'm stuck on about 1.9Mbps at non-busy times, and considerably less at other times.
3. For various technical reasons, if you're in a similar situation to me then the fixed rate deal will give you better speeds. With ADSL+ or Max BT will continuously adjust the speed downwards until it reaches a level that gives a stable throughput and then you're stuck there. The only way you'll get back up to where you started is by turning off the router and disconnecting the line for an hour or so, by which time the BT equipment will have forgotten the previous data.
4. For the reasons just quoted, the iPlate/bell wire stuff is only likely to give you a major speed increase if you are on ADSL Plus or Max.

steadynerve

Hi I have a wireless broadband router and a digital phone plugged into my adsl fitter.

It works fine but 50% of the time when somone makes a call on the phone I lose the braodband and have to reset by switching the router off and on again.

Will the iplate or disconnecting the bell wire help with this problem?

DatabaseError

a new filter will help
are ALL the phones in the house filtered?

alahol2

The first thing to try is a new filter, it sounds like yours is duff...

steadynerve

Forgot to mention the digital phine is also wireless. We have two hansets with it and i we don't plug into any other phone sockets in the house. (believe there is one other but not sure if it is connected).

Is it may be interference from two wireless gadgets close to each other?