Interstitial plates?

BT sell them and you can find them a good bit cheaper on ebay, but do
they do what it says on the tin?

'BT have seen speeds increase by up to 4Mbit, although they admit that
1.5Mbit were found to be more typical in a benchmark survey of 36, 000
filtered lines. Let’s not forget however that the maximum speed of ADSL
is 8Mbit, so if you’re already syncing at 8Mbit it won’t go any faster,
although it might help improve stability if you experience frequent
disconnects or experience a high amount of errors.'

Is what they say!

No problem here, I'm connecting at close to full speed, but I have
searched and found no mention of them in u.t.b

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

"Harry Bloomfield" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> BT sell them and you can find them a good bit cheaper on ebay, but do they
> do what it says on the tin?
>
> 'BT have seen speeds increase by up to 4Mbit, although they admit that
> 1.5Mbit were found to be more typical in a benchmark survey of 36, 000
> filtered lines. Let's not forget however that the maximum speed of ADSL is
> 8Mbit, so if you're already syncing at 8Mbit it won't go any faster,
> although it might help improve stability if you experience frequent
> disconnects or experience a high amount of errors.'
>
> Is what they say!
>
> No problem here, I'm connecting at close to full speed, but I have
> searched and found no mention of them in u.t.b

The BT I-plate worked fine for me.
I got mine from here:
http://www.buyaniplate.co.uk/
Mind you, I also changed my frog modem for a new modem/router at the same
time and also changed my phone filters to ADSLnation ones.
My speed went from less than 1 meg to over 2 megs very shortly afterwards
(I'm on a long rural line) and has carried on improving.
I've had zero dropouts since then and my latest router stats show that I'm
currently working at 3776/448, which is the best it's ever been.

George

> BT sell them and you can find them a good bit cheaper on ebay, but do they
> do what it says on the tin?
>
> 'BT have seen speeds increase by up to 4Mbit, although they admit that
> 1.5Mbit were found to be more typical in a benchmark survey of 36, 000
> filtered lines. Let's not forget however that the maximum speed of ADSL is
> 8Mbit, so if you're already syncing at 8Mbit it won't go any faster,
> although it might help improve stability if you experience frequent
> disconnects or experience a high amount of errors.'
>
> Is what they say!
>
> No problem here, I'm connecting at close to full speed, but I have
> searched and found no mention of them in u.t.b
>
> --
> Regards,
> Harry (M1BYT) (L)
> http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk


Nevever heard the called that before, but in the manor of
i-pod i-phone i-player try googling this group for i-plate
and you will find lots of references.

The i-plate does work, but is a compromise solution
for people who don't want to fit a central filtered
faceplate, the later ones have a bell wire filter too,
which is all the i-plate is really.

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

In message <(E-Mail Removed) >, Peter
Crosland <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>The Iplate inserts components that reduce the pickup of external RF
>interference particularly on the bell wires inside the subscriber's
>premises. It can make a significant difference but is not guaranteed to do
>so. The only real way to find out if it works is to try one.
What about the later NTE faceplates? ISTR reading they have the RF
filter built in and can be identified by a cylindrical protrusion which
I assume is part of the filter (RF inductor?)?
>
>Peter Crosland
>
>

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Clint Sharp

It happens that Peter Crosland formulated :
>>>The Iplate inserts components that reduce the pickup of external RF
>>>interference particularly on the bell wires inside the subscriber's
>>>premises. It can make a significant difference but is not guaranteed to do
>>>so. The only real way to find out if it works is to try one.
>> What about the later NTE faceplates? ISTR reading they have the RF filter
>> built in and can be identified by a cylindrical protrusion which I assume
>> is part of the filter (RF inductor?)?
>
>
> The official BT Iplate will only fit the BT badged NTE5 backplates.
> TheOpenreach badged backplates, sometimes called NTE5A, have the inductor
> built in and this is what is in the cylindrical protusion. The circuitry of
> the combined IPlate/BT NTE5 is different from the NTE5A but they both perform
> the same function that is primarily to isolate the bell wire in the customer
> wiring.

So an NTE5A can be used as a complete all-in-one replacement for the BT
master socket?

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

After serious thinking Peter Crosland wrote :
> In theory but first you have to obtain one but Openreach don't sell them
> separately and secondly you are not allowed to work on the BT wiring.
>
> Peter Crosland

So the only real problem is getting hold of one....

It was I put the original cable and socket in, when I got BT to install
a new drop line from the pole. I got him to poke the cable in via the
eaves, then I crawled in loft to pull it through and connected up to a
new master socket he provided. All new right from the pole to a new
socket.

They were just going to replace the drop line from pole to a joint
under the eaves, a system which had given us (and them) regular noisy
line and intermitant line trouble for years. Since I eliminated that
outside joint, there have been no more problems for 15 years.
years.


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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

Peter Crosland was thinking very hard :
>> After serious thinking Peter Crosland wrote :
>>> In theory but first you have to obtain one but Openreach don't sell them
>>> separately and secondly you are not allowed to work on the BT wiring.
>>>
>>> Peter Crosland
>>
>> So the only real problem is getting hold of one....
>>
>> It was I put the original cable and socket in, when I got BT to install a
>> new drop line from the pole. I got him to poke the cable in via the eaves,
>> then I crawled in loft to pull it through and connected up to a new master
>> socket he provided. All new right from the pole to a new socket.
>>
>> They were just going to replace the drop line from pole to a joint under
>> the eaves, a system which had given us (and them) regular noisy line and
>> intermitant line trouble for years. Since I eliminated that outside joint,
>> there have been no more problems for 15 years.
>> years.
>
>
> An IPlate will do the job just as well so I would use that.

As said I don't have a problem, but its none the less useful to know -
thanks. I connect steady as a rock at 7616kbbs on an 8Mb service 0.5Km
from the exchange, so wouldn't expect much if any improvement. Just a
matter of if I decide to tidy things up, which master plate I should
look for.

Getting an Openreach plate will probably be not to difficult.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk