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

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whoever said "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" wasn't wrong!
azizur, did you check your router's sync speed before and after? this is the only true indication as to whether the connection has been improved, or not. a test at speedtest.net or any other is not diagnostically relevant, sorry

sike222

azizur wrote: »

I opened my box and it didnt have any orange wire with white stripes to cut. all the other wires were connected already in a rubber caseing and were not in the unit where it is numbered one to six, they were all empty.

i cut the orange wire thinking it was te bell wire, put everything back and found the phone didn't work, luckly i was able to rewire the orange wire ( no white stripe) back.

so which one is the bell wire?

I bought a i-plate today, put it on, however the speed check that i did before and after showed no diffrence. and actually seems worse than before i put the i-plate, it was working up to 4mbs and now just reaches 2mbs.

was this a bad move? i havent took out the i-plate to see if this is the problem yet.

can anyone help.

the colour of the wire can be totally irrelevant. you could use a pink wire with purple stripes (if you can find one) to be the bell wire. The bell wire (this will only become relevant if you have extension sockets) will ALWAYS be the wire connected to the front plate pin number 3. If you have no extensions and/or no wire connected to the 3rd pin dont touch anything. If you do have a wire connected then by all means disconnect it.

By the sounds of it you do not have a bell wire so the i-plate will have no positive effect.

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sike222 wrote: »

...By the sounds of it you do not have a bell wire so the i-plate will have no positive effect.

and a £15 negative effect!

espresso

tonyhague wrote: »

and a £15 negative effect!

Snake oil is expensive isn't it!

:rotfl:

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espresso wrote: »

Snake oil is expensive isn't it!

:rotfl:

it's not as bad as that, it can solve a problem, but anyone able to undo 2 screws may as well undo another 2 and pull a wire.
I think the biggest issue is sites (such as this) proclaiming that net speed can be increased by 60% for £15, many people won't read beyond the headline

espresso

tonyhague wrote: »

it's not as bad as that, it can solve a problem, but anyone able to undo 2 screws may as well undo another 2 and pull a wire.
I think the biggest issue is sites (such as this) proclaiming that net speed can be increased by 60% for £15, many people won't read beyond the headline

Exactly, I have already pointed this out to MSE towers but they were obviously taken in by the hype as well.

oldgiteroo

Hi I have taken out the bell wire from the Telecom box , BUT, i have one of these lozenge type things by my frnt door where the wire comes into the house. It is marked "GPO" and has the serial no KKA16 inside. 2 grey wires come into it from outside, and 1 orange and 1 brown are connected to the oposite terminals. The green and Brown are NOT connected to anything, just rolled up loose in the box. Do i need to replace this with one of these RF3 ? and if so do you know where i can get one ? Thanks

shammyjack wrote: »

Another problem to look out for is if you have a small lozenge shaped box on your incoming drop wire before the BT main box.

If you have take off the faceplate and look on the circuit board inside, If it says RF2 then you have a major problem .

This Radio Frequency filter is pre ADSL and adds around 30Db attenuation to an ADSL line, dramaticaly dropping the speed you sync at .

It should be replaced with a RF3 filter which allows full pass through of the ADSL signal or removed and allow a good quality filter like the ADSL Nation face plate to filter out any Radio Frequency noise .

shammy

Eddie_Doherty

Hey,
I jumped to this thread with great anticipation, as my Broadband speed has always been lower than average. According to BT, this was due to me being on the brink of reception due to my distance from the nearest exchange (which is all of 1 mile away as the crow flies), and also due to the noise on the line. I was told that the most I could expect was around the 1100 kbps mark. I later switched to Sky, still using BT's phone line, and the speed topped out at about 1680 kbps.

Having read the item about the I-Plate, I was ready to dive in and buy on, but read on about cutting/removing the bell wire in the socket. Good job too. I removed this wire this afternoon and did another speed check. I am now getting a speed of 2780 kbps, an increase of 60%, without spending a brass farthing. It is STILL below the average for my area according to statistics, but is a welcome increase for now. It was very easy to remove this wire so I suggest that anyone worried about doing so plucks up courage, grabs a screwdriver and gives this a go. I got the wire out with a pair of needle-nosed pliers without any problem and the whole thing should only take a couple of minutes.

Good luck!

Tight_Fist

Right I thought I would give this a go:D

Now I moved my master BT socket from my hallway and literally pulled the cable right back outside and up the side of the house to where it connects from the pole over the road. I tucked it under the eves of the house and dropped it straight into the front bedroom (office) and reconnected the master socket. I have a microfilter connecting to the home phone and the ADSL line to my router. In the master socket I have one extension which runs downstairs but is not used (as the second phone is wireless) I have removed the cable from slot 3 and had a 1/2 meg improvement. Is it worth disconecting the other wire to number 4? (whilst the extn is not in use) will I benefit!!

Also another question slightly off topic.
I only need a 1 foot Cat5 cable to connect my router but still use a 2 meter ADSL line from the microfilter to the router. Do they do these cables in 1 foot lengths anywhere as I can't find one and would it improve my D/L speeds?
I have just started yesterday on O2's premier connection and am getting around 8meg

Thanks

outofreach

After reading some of these threads, there are a few people who are quoting BT as the baddies here, especially when it comes to charging you for repairing something you may have meddled with. At the end of the day all service providers will charge you and after all -why not, it's their equipment and you would not expect an electrician or plumber to come to you and fix things for nothing would you?