Anyone removed the ring wire to improve broadband speeds?

What are you currently connected at?

I've tried it and it's made zero difference but for some people it can make a *huge* difference. Just depends on your wiring and local interference I guess.
 
I get an average of 6.2mb/s and thats with testing the speeds Morning, Noon, Evening and early morning over a period of 3 days.

BT say I should be hitting an average of 6.5mb/s but as I am literally spitting distance from the exchange, new house & wiring etc I thought I may be able to squeeze a little more from it.

I am aware that if the router shows an increase in download speeds when it connects, I may not get it for a few days due to IP Profiling.
 
If you have a NTE5 and dont want to go snipping wires around your house then you can buy an i-plate from BT and this does the same thing.
 
i took the plate off my master socket and the wiring is horrendous! couldn't make head nor tail of what the electrician had done (even after trying all the "disable ring wire" websites)
ended up getting an iplate and my connection went from 2.4 to 3.8 immediately on reconnecting. Its not guaranteed for some but was a worthy purchase for me.
 
PaulyD said:
If you have a NTE5 and dont want to go snipping wires around your house then you can buy an i-plate from BT and this does the same thing.
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When I take the front panel off the master socket, there is another socket in there that apprently is used to connect direct to the exchange.

Is this an NTE5?
 
I took my ring wire off a few years back.

Bt speed was 1.3meg before and 4.5 meg after.


I have since got a filtered plate but never did put back the ring wire, I do need a filter on each phone or they won't ring.
 
With a filtered face plate, it shouldn't matter if you connect the ring wire or not, to be fair.

But, if you bought a decent filtered plate, you shouldn't need to filter each phone if you've wired it up correctly.

I have an extension running of the filtered side of my face plate, and it works fine (Although, I don't have the bell wire connected).
 
MikeHiow said:
With a filtered face plate, it shouldn't matter if you connect the ring wire or not, to be fair.

But, if you bought a decent filtered plate, you shouldn't need to filter each phone if you've wired it up correctly.

I have an extension running of the filtered side of my face plate, and it works fine (Although, I don't have the bell wire connected).
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I'm running from behind the socket, which I suspected wasn't filtered.
As it makes no difference to the speed I won't mess with it.
 
Although when I first heard about it I assumed it was all smoke & mirrors - there seems to be good results with the iPlates you can purchase.

They cost you around £10 and in effect they are removing the Bell Wire from the system.
Some people have fitted them and seen no difference.
However apparently in a test with 36,000 people the average speed increase was somewhere between 1.5mb & 3mb.
They also apparently help in line stability too.
 
no ring wire, millions of miles from the exchange (at least 5) get sync speeds of approx. 5meg. have been told that a filtered face plate *may* make a small difference, but not tried yet :)
 
Sel said:
I'm running from behind the socket, which I suspected wasn't filtered.
As it makes no difference to the speed I won't mess with it.
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I don't know what plate you're running, but mine has two outputs behind

4 Terminal filtered output (for telephone extensions)

2 terminal un-filtered out put (for adsl extensions)
 
I think it could be down to the age of the phone I did read that older phones may still need the filters.

I'm using the one that was recommended on some site, if I plug the phone into the filtered socket it will ring.
 
3dcandy said:
no ring wire, millions of miles from the exchange (at least 5) get sync speeds of approx. 5meg. have been told that a filtered face plate *may* make a small difference, but not tried yet :)
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I'm in pretty much the same situation.

Did said person give you a reason for changing to the face plate as I can't see the benefit over a normal filter personally.

Always happy to try and get a bit more umph out of my line.
 
I've had as much as 5.7meg on my connection (currently 4.8meg )but it dropped because the SNR fell from 6db to 2db or less.

So does anyone know if an iPlate better than a standard filtered plate?
 
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