I found out today that if you remove the orange wire in the master phone socket it improves broadband speed.

 

 

 

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/tutorials/how_ ... ocket.html

 

 

 

Has anyone tried and how well does it work? Fed up with getting 2mb speeds when im paying for 8mb.

I seriously do not recommend you do that, and I really doubt it's going to change anything even if it continues working with that wire removed.

It works, but if your worried about doing it get this its much safer and is easy to undo.

 

It improved my internet by a pretty bit chunk.

 

\/ My post about the iPlate on the review section of the site.

 

Was 2,600kbs (on the router, 1,800kbs on speed tests)

 

Now 5,300kbs (on the router, my ISP needs to change the profile before it kicks in).

 

Definitely worth buying an iPlate if you line has the Bell wire.

The I-plate, of course, is only applicable if there is a wired extension attached to the half plate.

 

 

 

Where the ADSL is taken from the face plate, best to use a replacement filter faceplate, keeping the ADSL off the extension wiring altogether.

 

 

 

If you have an "up to 8" and are only getting 2 or less, it's also worth checking that you have not missed out a microfilter.

 

Every device that is not the ADSL modem, must pass through the "phone" side of a microfilter, this includes extension bells, burglar alarms, Sky box, caller display unit etc. You can use splitters after a microfilter, but too many splits may weaken the bell signal.

 

 

 

 

 

There have also been some defective microfilters, typically of the plug in rather than rat tailed design:

 

Tehkal/Origo ASL 2019

 

Fake D-Link DSL-20MF (the real one is a rat-tailed)

 

http://www.adslnation.co.uk/support/filters.php

 

 

 

The ring wire is connected through the filter, losing most of the isolation.

 

 

 

The basic construction of the filter is:

 

ADSL feed connects straight though.

 

Chokes/coils/ferrite cores prevent the ADSL leaking away to the phone side. Parallel capacitor completes the filtering of ADSL from the phone side, while another capacitor is used to provide the ringer feed, not using the original ring wire.