If only it was that simple. I recently paid BT £150 to move my master socket. Openreach came and did the move and fitted one of these new sockets. Since then my ADSL has slowed down from a synch rate of 1600kbps to on average 440kbps. They have been back and looked at it and there is no apparent reason for the slowdown.

You describe 2Mb/sec as ‘paltry’. We live 3 miles from the exchange and our speed today is 720Kb/sec. That is with the SSFP plate and the pc connected to the master socket. BT have no intention of improving this speed for the low number of customers who fit into this category, there’s no profit in it. As with other providers they will increase speeds to customers in high density areas who already have a good choice of high speed broadband. I am hoping mobile broadband or satellite will soon be the answer for those not living near an exchange or in rural areas.

I am puzzled as my master telephone socket is just like all the others in the house, a blank white plate with two fixing screws either side of the socket. It does not look anything like the one being described here. Presumably to be able to use this device will also require a visit from BT to upgrade the fitting?

I was on a service advertising upto 8mbps but usually got at best around 1800. I’m about 3-4 miles from the exchange in a suburb of Sheffield. Immediately before fitting the iPlate I got 2000, but after fitting on Saturday the speed went up to around 2800 – 3000. This morning I checked again and it had gone up again to 3517. I’m delighted. It hasn’t made much difference to upload speeds however.

Will there be a similar product for us cable customers? I’m struggling with my 19.5Mbit connection at the moment and although Virgin say they will be increasing it to 50Mbit, I have to wait until the end of the year for that! ;o)

I’m now getting 4.3mb. Not Earth shaking, but it has made a difference of 400kbs. That’s only 10%, but it’s 10% in the right direction. Verdict = it’s worth paying £14 for. Upstream speed unchanged at 383kbs.

I have an old style phone socket with a splitter to give two outlets.
I snipped the bell wire in the splitter so as not to interfere with the BT wiring. Will this have the same effect as snipping the wire in the actual socket?

I purchased the BT iplate from broadbandbuyer and recieved it today.

The information on the broadbandbuyer website says:
Please be aware of these instances of where the iPlate will have little or no effect, including:
- Where the socket is a newly installed BT Openreach socket (with BT Openreach Logo)

HOWEVER, the colour install guide thats come with the unit clearly states NOT to fit the iplate if you have an Openreach logod socket.

Which is correct? Should I just fit the device and test it or send it back for a refund as the product information provided on the broadbandbuyer site to what the manufacturer states is contradicting.

I bought one as soon as I read about it. I live 2.9km from my exchange and my 8Mbps service has always yielded about 1.4Mbps. Within 24 hours of fitting the iPlate I was seeing 2.4Mbps. Not earth shattering by any stretch of the imagination but worthy of a one off cost of £10 in my opinion. Haven’t lost a connection whilst playing COD4 or Trackmania online since fitting either.

I live 3 miles from the exchange, and three weeks after installing my download rate has fallen from 3456 to 2048. In my case it appears to be making things worse.

I switched some time ago from a linksys router to a billion. This improved the download rate by almost 50%. Maybe the benefits or otherwise may be affected by the modem’s chipset.

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@Raisin:
The BT documents are a little contradictory. One says DO NOT install an iPlate on an Openreach socket, the others say it will just have little benefit as the Openreach sockets have a built-in ringwire filter, but may help a little as the iPlate also has an RFI filter. I’d say the latter is correct – I can’t see that filtering the ringwire twice will cause any problems, it is just unlikely to help much.

@stevethekeys:
You most likely have one, but the only way to know for sure is to open your sockets and see if you have more than two wires connected. The SSFP is easy to identify – normal master sockets have a single socket and a flat fron panel, SSFPs have a bulge at the bottom, two sockets (one BT, one RJ11) and are labelled something like “ADSL v1.0″ or “ADSL v2.0″

Have you checked that you’ve not loosened any of the IDC connections on the back of the faceplate while fitting it? If I’d checked back here earlier I’d've advised you to ring your BT and get them to check the RRT report for your line to see if your noise margin had dropped, but BT only keep the data for 14 days.

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Do you think iPlate can boost ADSL 2+ connection speed?

Your description of iPlate may lead some people astray – as it’s use may cause broadband problems for some users. This plate is simply intended to isolate the broadband signal from rest of property phone wiring (which should be connected to the rear of this iPlate). That wiring would otherwise unnecessarily load the broadband signal, hence reducing performance. But, if the router is not to be mounted near this master socket, you still somehow need to allow broadband signal to reach the particular outlet (phone socket) to which your router is to be connected – this means ensuring that both phone and broadband signals reach that socket unfiltered! This is done by connecting wires to that particular phone socket (only) from before the master socket – for which you may need technical help.
On a similar topic, it should be noted that long internal flat phone extender cables also act as good broadband filters – hence may reduce the quality of broadband signal at the far end! Use proper fixed extension phone wire to solve this – or wireless router near master socket!

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I got a free iPlate from a recent computer exhibition in Olympia but it didnt make any difference to my speed issues.

Hi Simbr, thanks for that advice. There could be an issue with the cables not being fitted into the faceplate properly. However, when I plugged straight into the test socket behind the faceplate, the speed had lowered also to around 3.5mbps. Has the BRAS profile updated and lowered for some reason? Perhaps. So I removed all and put it back to how it was. Now if I plug directly into the test socket, I’m back to my 4.8mbps and the iplate makes no difference. I do need to have the original faceplate put back properly though as I think there is a problem with the cables going into the IDC connections – if I plug into this, the speeds are around 2.5mbps.

Thanks for your advice.

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I was a little intrigued by all this and after some reaserch (googling!) I stumbled on this guys instructions about removing the bell wire it self, as all this i-plate thing seems to do is choke it, http://broadband-speedup.blogspot.com – gave it a go and my sync speed shot up from 3.7 to 4.6Mbs as soon as I disconnected it and restarted my router, and my other phones seem fine. I suggest you give it a go first, it would be as easy to reconnect the bell wire if it does cause a problem.

I found in the past replacing my ADSL splitters with some premium ones also helped.

Still looking for ways to get my full 8mb I pay for!!

The i plate has solved a problem I’ve had for ages – namely that whenever my landline phone is in use, my broadband would go down.

No one could explain why, although some did suggest it could be the digital cordless phones interfering with the signal. Nothing i could do about this, I thought, after all everyone has these phones nowadays.

Anyway – the i plate has cleared this problem. So It’s a thumbs up from me.

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received the iplate today after quick and easy installation speed went up from 7140kb to 12501kb thats from just over 7mbps to just over 12mbps amazing

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I thought you might like to share my recent experience of fitting the BT I-Plate.
I removed the bottom section of the NTE5 master socket, by first removing the short machine screws. These screws screwed into machine threaded metal bushes located in the master socket.
The I-Plate was then connected very easily. The short machine screws were discarded and longer self tapping screws were then used to fix the new assembly to the master socket. Some slight ‘binding’noise was heard when the screws were tightened.
Because I needed to check that the bell wires (white /orange and orange white) were not connected – for improved speed, I then attempted to undo the self tapping screws , but although they rotated , they did not unscrew themselves. I then tried to pull on the I-Plate to force the screws out, to no avail. It appears that the threaded metal bushes in the master socket are rotating and cannot be removed because they are moulded into the master socket.
Although I do not need to remove the I-Plate at the moment , if necessary though if I need a BT repair , the plastic of the I-Plate will have to be ‘removed ‘ in order to obtain entry to the screws , resulting in possible damage to the master socket and a significant replacement cost from BT.
The self tapping screws are meant to be used with the plastic bushing version of the NTE5 but no actual mention is made of this, only that the NTE5 is the only version to be used with the I-Plate. With hindsight I should not have used the self tapping screws but like most people was keen to see a significant increase in speed. BT should have foreseen this problem and supplied longer self tapping and machine threaded screws.

So for now I cannot remove the I-Plate at all without destroying the I-Plate and possibly the master socket !

I did not improve my speeds either!

sorry wrong link, try this one
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(dsl with 2km line)

I fitted the I-Plate a few moments ago.
I have a Belkin ADSL 2+ router which was reporting a D/S speed of 8.1Mbps before fitting.
Immediately after fitting, the reported speed is now 9.9Mbps.
Oddly, for a few minutes after fitting I couldn’t get past my router and out to the Internet even though the router was indicating that I was authenticated and online with my provider.
However, it cleared itself and now I am surfing at blistering speed.
I did a couple of Speedtest.net tests and my average D/S speed has gone up by around 2Mbps.
Definitely worked for me and well worth it.
(Thanks to Bro-inlaw Miles for the heads up on the I-Plate).

Got one for £7,

http://www.shop.bt.com/iplate

few friends recommended them, so fingers crossed

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I got the Pressac Faceplate Splitter from http://adsl-filters.co.uk/buyf.html. Before I fitted it I was getting typical download 2.7Mbps, upload 350kbps, ping 55ms. Afterwards it immediately went to 6.8Mbps, 530kbps, 45ms and has stayed there for the last four days, with little variation between busy and light-load times. Before I was getting a drop to around 1.8Mbps mid-evening. Sounds like I may have been lucky with the degree of change.

I still think it’s as easy to just remove the bell wire, follow this guide.

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just fitted the iplate before fitting i got 668 kbs now i get 12800 kbs wow so impressed well worth 6 quid i live 3 miles from exchange and the modem is on a extension socket in the bedroom

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It sounds like a great help to those needing an internet high speed boost. It’s even better that they are now giving it away free.

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As a contractor, I address some of these issues are a regular basis… thanks for making sense!

If only it was that simple. I recently paid BT £150 to move my master socket. Openreach came and did the move and fitted one of these new sockets. Since then my ADSL has slowed down from a synch rate of 1600kbps to on average 440kbps. They have been back and looked at it and there is no apparent reason for the slowdown.

If only it was that simple. I recently paid BT £150 to move my master socket. Openreach came and did the move and fitted one of these new sockets. Since then my ADSL has slowed down from a synch rate of 1600kbps to on average 440kbps. They have been back and looked at it and there is no apparent reason for the slowdown.

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It can take up to three days for BT’s automated equipment to adjust your BRAS profile once your synch speed improves.

actually it boosts broadband connections by 59,7%

Anything to put the US in the broadband race helps. I mean we are (or were) a power house in this world and we wank 27 or something among in the broadband race!

I s it possible to use it if SSFP (Service Specific Front Plate) is not supported?

The i-Plate has now been replaced with a new vDSL filter, basically an i-Plate and SSFP ADSL Filter built-in – now on Amazon – ‘vdsl filter’ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Interstitial-Faceplate-Replaces-BT-Compatible/dp/B006VX2P1M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326224524&sr=8-2