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VIJAY_FROM_KENT

Can someone explain how/why taking this 3rd wire out improves speed?

penrhyn

The bell (third) wire acts like an aerial and increases the noise on the line thus making it more difficult for the modem to differentiate the broadband signal from the noise.

matt987106

i took the 3rd wire ( bell wire ) out and my speeds have dropped by 1/2 a meg

its now slower than a dail up modem

penrhyn

Plug your router into your master test socket and check your speed again, preferably by obtaining your router line statistics.




How to get line stats:
http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.php

How to remove the bell wire tutorial
http://www.skyuser.co.uk/tutorials/how_to_remove_the_ring_wire_from_your_master_socket.html


Enjoy.

Gers

Stunned and gobsmacked are the only words I can use here... oh, and amazed.

Removed the bell wire last night (manually: 1 bloke with screwdriver and about 3 minutes for 2 sockets whilst I hardly had time to make a cup of tea) and my results have JUMPED from 5.5Mbs to 27.23Mbs! It's just astounding.



Thanks and double thanks for this topic, or at least the way it turned. No need to give BT any money at all.:j:j

Dunx69

Gers wrote: »

Stunned and gobsmacked are the only words I can use here... oh, and amazed.

Removed the bell wire last night (manually: 1 bloke with screwdriver and about 3 minutes for 2 sockets whilst I hardly had time to make a cup of tea) and my results have JUMPED from 5.5Mbs to 27.23Mbs! It's just astounding.



Thanks and double thanks for this topic, or at least the way it turned. No need to give BT any money at all.:j:j

are you still downloading at this speed or was it a glitch?

Dreamsorcerer

Gers wrote: »

my results have JUMPED from 5.5Mbs to 27.23Mbs! It's just astounding.

WOW! Is that an ADSL connection??

matt987106

mine has settled back at 1.2 meg, which is what it was for a few years

Dunx69

Dreamsorcerer wrote: »

WOW! Is that an ADSL connection??

i doubt very much he still has that speed, and even with the speedtest result real world downloads of actual things like music would still be at his old rate or 5mb if that unless he has got adsl+2 and sits very very close to exchange and didnt realise his line had been upgraded to adsl+2

WhichWayNow

My brother carried out a DIY phone extension some 15 years ago, I finally got round to looking at his handy work and have found out he had 2 wires going into 3?? lol.
I removed the orange one (the same colour as the rest of the ones around the house) and it is working fine. Getting a whole 1MB boost.