Interstitial Plates

Sonea Fifer · 16 Mar 2008 at 01:57

Just wondering if anyone has heard of these?

It's a device that BT has been trialling called an Interstitial Plate - or iPlate - that slots into the master telephone socket and largely eliminates any noise and interference with the broadband signal, they claim it provides a significant boost for ADSL broadband speeds.

As I understand it the device is fitted between the test socket and the faceplate and breaks the pin 3, ring wire connection which BT have recently discovered has been causing issues!

Source here

Picture working for an ISP with customers phoning up saying my neighbours TV is affecting my broadband signal :eek:

Just wondering if anyone else has heard of this and their opinions?

tolien · 16 Mar 2008 at 02:01

BT have already been testing it on customers, and found an improvement of ~10%. Nothing really unexpected - it's just disconnecting the ring wire for the technically unsure.

Rainmaker · 16 Mar 2008 at 02:24

BT have "recently" become aware of this? Tutorials about disconnecting the ring wire (and sometimes extremely dramatic subsequent sync increases) have been around on the net for years?!

k3v1n · 16 Mar 2008 at 07:49

I disconnected the ring wire from all the face plates when I moved to this place and it made no difference.

If you can use a screw driver, it's a 30 second job.

Just pull out the wire in pin 3 of all your face plates.

tolien · 16 Mar 2008 at 12:20

Rainmaker said:
BT have "recently" become aware of this? Tutorials about disconnecting the ring wire (and sometimes extremely dramatic subsequent sync increases) have been around on the net for years?!

"Recently" in the sense they've been testing it with customers (and so presumably within a lab for some time before that) for a while now. BT were doing this at the start with the engineer-installed filtered faceplate too, so if anything BT were first to the idea...

It was mentioned in a BTw presentation dated the 23rd of January, so it's hardly even a new announcement from BT. The results of the trial were supposed to be published this month.

Rainmaker · 16 Mar 2008 at 14:22

Interesting stuff, tolien, cheers.

tolien · 16 Mar 2008 at 18:51

Forgot to mention, the presentation is here (it's the one dated 23rd January you're after, then there's a PowerPoint file with an obvious name).