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

stevenorf

If you are one of the lucky few who already have an ADSL master socket (it normally has ISDN or ADSL on it and has 2 sockets one specifically for the broadband/pc connection (cat5 plug not a phone plug) and a seperate socket for the phone, adding one of these new plates will make no difference at all and you should not replace the BT installed one which does exactly the same job.

miss_corerupted

this sounds really good. How do you check your speed?? Want to do a before and after.
Also we got 2 extensions and a big bell attached sound we disconnect those as well??

thanks

SmilingPete

Before attempting any of this (wire snipping or fitting the new plate) One should establish what your "local loop" ADSL speed is. This is the speed your modem/router connects to the local exchange at. The various on line speed tests etc. are not actually measuring this directly, they are measuring the over all speed that you are achieving. Other factors can bottleneck your speed even if your local loop speed is at the max (usually 8mb/s). The ISP can cap the speed even if your LL speed is at the max. In this case these bell wire modifications will make no improvement.

I am only half a mile from my exchange. My LL speed is connected at the full 8mb/s yet I never ever get more than 2.8mb/s transfer speed throughput measured with on line speed tests. This is simply because my ISP (talktalk) caps the connection at 2.8mb/s no matter how good the LL signal path is. So no amount of LL signal improvement will get my connection any faster. This bell wire issue will probably be more useful those who are some distance from the exchange when the LL signal to noise ratio is poor to start with.

harryhound

miss_corerupted wrote: »

this sounds really good. How do you check your speed?? Want to do a before and after.
Also we got 2 extensions and a big bell attached sound we disconnect those as well??

thanks

Snap.

Get to know your connection by using "thinkbroadband" for (say) 10 days.
Then check my links above to the MAAF thread.

If you can manage to live with it, try plugging only the router and the initial main phone in the house to the master test socket, hopefully with short wires. As shown above, this is inside the first BT socket's faceplate. IE filter then one phone and router only, other extension phones and big bell will have been disconnected by the removal of the face plate. If you get a step improvement in speed within a week, your home is causing the interference/noise and disconnecting the redundant wires should make an improvement. When you plug the extensions and bell back into their filter(s) and into the extension sockets you should keep the improvement.
However this does not protect you from dodgy connections in the future somewhere between your home and the exchange.

Kabeer_2

If I disconnect the bell/ring wire from the Master socket downstairs., would this be sufficient in my setup?

My setup is; extension cable from master socket downstairs, running upstairs to the wireless router.

Or would I need to remove bell/ring wire connection from BOTH the master and the extension wire?

Thanks

espresso

Kabeer wrote: »

If I disconnect the bell/ring wire from the Master socket downstairs., would this be sufficient in my setup?

My setup is; extension cable from master socket downstairs, running upstairs to the wireless router.

Or would I need to remove bell/ring wire connection from BOTH the master and the extension wire?

Thanks

Only at the master socket.

Kabeer_2

espresso wrote: »

Only at the master socket.

Thanks .

Well I just tried the test socket under the master plate. And it syncs at pretty much the same speed, maybe a tad faster (16,333 rather than 16,200-ish).

Im on O2's 16mbit service, but trying a speed test with either the test socket or like normal with the router upstairs I only seem to get about a 8.3mbit connection (http://www.speedtest.net/), even though the router sync's at a much higher speed.
(I am under the assumption that as the router sync's at this speed, I should be able to get the full 16mbit...?)

Any idea why this might be? Or are my assumptions wrong....

Thanks.

espresso

Kabeer wrote: »

Any idea why this might be? Or are my assumptions wrong....

Thanks.

See post #46

loggo

Just removed bell wire - a 2 minute job. I checked speed before and after and it increased from approx 1.2 meg to approx 2.2 meg immediately. Brilliant!!!:j

molerat

I went to disconnect my bell wire ..... it wasn't connected in the first place !!