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

sike222

everything that worked on your phone line before you disconnect the bell wire will work after you disconnect it. all adsl filters have the circuitry inside to make your phones ring.

Tony_Swash

There is no need to spend money to do this and it may not even work. Those of you using Vista will have your speed determined by Windows. This limits you to having more than two or three connections at one time. Vista will also try to balance your download speeds. There is a patch to increase the number of connections to up to 200 this works very well with peer to peer such as limewire and emule. Another FREE progra that will double your speed is TCP optimizer which adjusts your settings automatically. Also try reget pro, free to try and $10 dollars for a lifetime licence, well worth the money.

iviv

Tony_Swash wrote: »

There is no need to spend money to do this and it may not even work. Those of you using Vista will have your speed determined by Windows. This limits you to having more than two or three connections at one time. Vista will also try to balance your download speeds. There is a patch to increase the number of connections to up to 200 this works very well with peer to peer such as limewire and emule. Another FREE progra that will double your speed is TCP optimizer which adjusts your settings automatically. Also try reget pro, free to try and $10 dollars for a lifetime licence, well worth the money.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=267665

That thread is talking about a 'patch' that has been going around that apparently removes the connection limit you are talking about. While there are some programs that claim to speed up your connection, these mostly work by limiting what you download. Though if you're going to do that, it makes more sense to use a firefox plugin like adblock to prevent ads loading, which will mean your sites load miliseconds faster.

barnstormer

I live in a nearly brand new house 18 months old and right on the outskirts of the exchange limit, i get about 256kb at most, my question is will this make any difference to my speed or am i just stuck in the dark ages ?.
no cable in my area.........

Jackiekaren

I've read all of the above and I still can't figure out if this will help me or not.

My phone is plugged into the main socket and the wireless router is plugged into the extension socket. Both have ASDL filters.

My current speed is about 1.5Mbps.

I'm not sure how far I am from the exchange.

Would this be worth a try for me?

Thanks in advance

Jackie

snowman2_2

I removed the bell wire from my master socket and got a 25% increase in speed for about 1 minutes work and saved £14 on an I-Plate. I may still get a filtered faceplate to do a proper job when I rewire my house.

Mike54_2

Has anyones ISP gave them one for free?

sike222

barnstormer wrote: »

I live in a nearly brand new house 18 months old and right on the outskirts of the exchange limit, i get about 256kb at most, my question is will this make any difference to my speed or am i just stuck in the dark ages ?.
no cable in my area.........

to both you, Jackiekaren et al. it will not hurt to try this. If you have, as i am sure you probably do in a new build, more than one socket. Removing the bell wire, yes this is better than buying ANY bell wire filter, will do no harm but will, probably, increase your bb speed.

bobothebear

Well I thought it can do now harm so as soon as OH went to bed I attacked our Phone socket. Pulled out the Orange and White wire. Plugged it all back in and instantly my connection speed improved from 2.8Mbps to 3.9Mbps!!
I have 2 other extension sockets in my house so can only assume they were producing a ton of noise on the line.

Chef1980uk

Interesting article. I'm sure some will see this as "the fix" to their poor speeds even though its probably obvious the drop is from line distance for example but still nice to know of another fix.

Couple of questions/statements though when determining if this might be what is needed.

1. If my speeds vary randomly between 20% and 85% of my quoted speed, but never reaches above 85% could that be because of this issue?

or is it more likely.

2. I always only get 50% of my quoted speed, could that be because of this issue?

50% meaning a constant figure percentage.
Speed being measured using speed tests and various download sites.

For me, i've always been in the (1) statement. I'm on ADSLMax so know i should get up to 8mbps but have never got above 7mbps and usually only get 3mbps with occasional drops to 1.5mbps. The exchange is roughly 1.5km away. ISP = Freedom2Surf (£23.99pm), using no more than 65% of my Gb allowance in any one month.

The one constant i do have is my ping to game servers hosted 200 miles away and thats a steady ping of 40 if that counts for anything.