Comments on: Broadband-boosting iPlate now less than a tenner

By: JE

JE — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:21:31 +0000

I saved my tenner to after I followed this
blog going through steps to remove the ring wire – to be honest you only have to undo the same 2 screws as if you were installing the I plate – and pull out one wire. Simple! http://broadband-speedup.blogspot.com/ I gained about 700Kbs after I disconnected mine, and it didn’t cost me a penny.
JE.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:46:23 +0000

The main point of the iPlate is that it’s a simple self install device and for people who aren’t happy to fiddle about with their extension wiring it offers a fairly easy solution. Yes, removing the bell wire does have a very similar effect, but a lot of people won’t be happy to do that and there’s also the danger of removing the wrong wire.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:43:37 +0000

Barry’s comment about interference rejection is good. However, as BT supplied telephone cables are twisted pairs this cancels out stray induced signals anyway.
Only poor extension wiring is a problem and should be isolated at the main BT socket.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:57:34 +0000

I purchased one of these recently, speed went from 2Mbps to 7Mbps, best £15 I’ve ever spent! This was largely because we have a computer *right* next to our master socket. The bell wire was obviously picking up interference from there.

Also if you want to just manually disconnect the bell wire, you’ll need to do this for every socket in the house, whereas an iPlate on the master socket will do the same job. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have anything actually plugged in to your master socket, the iPlate will still make a difference.

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:29:32 +0000

It does more than just disconnect the ring wire !

It also has a mode filter to reject interference picked up on both signal wires in parallel, but pass signal which enters on one and returns on the other.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:46:05 +0000

It’s the bell wire apparently.
‘They’ reckon it can cause electrical interferance.

£10 for a punt, I’m in.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:03:14 +0000

So what on earth is the wire in terminal 3 for then?!

And is that really all I need to do?

By: John Gray

John Gray — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:36:47 +0000

I’ll bet that cost YOU less than a tenner!

Why is there all this hype about the i-Plate when five minutes with a screwdriver would achieve the same result?

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:03:10 +0000

Pulling the wire out of terminal 3 in the BT box (equivalent to installing the iPlate) resulted in my fathers ADSL speed increasing from 0.5 to 3.0 Mb on a notional 8 Mb connection.