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bt i-plate

BT I-PLATE

anyone got one of these?
if so are they any good?
thanks

PS. im about 2 miles from my exchange

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Never heard of it before, but does sound quite interesting. For less than the price of 3 pints I'll give it a go.

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I read in a forum you can do it without the plate but its messy. It's apparently essential for ADSL2+ but as I'm already getting close to my service provider's maximum I don't think it would make much difference here?

Same here... I could piss on my BT exchange from my house if I wanted to so I get just shy of the full 8Mb so I wouldn't get any benefit from it.

Interesting read though... I'm meeting an old school BT bloke tomorrow (wow.. more like 6 hours time now... god bless cyber sex to cause you to lose track of time) so will get his take on it

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Originally posted by Vampire
Same here... I could piss on my BT exchange from my house if I wanted to so I get just shy of the full 8Mb so I wouldn't get any benefit from it.

Interesting read though... I'm meeting an old school BT bloke tomorrow (wow.. more like 6 hours time now... god bless cyber sex to cause you to lose track of time) so will get his take on it

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For less than a tenner I'm gonna try one of these I think... If it doesn't work i can always sell it to an idiot

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I thought they already fitted one if you subscribed to BeThere?

I'm with O2 (which is essentially BeThere I think) but they didn't do anything with my master socket. It's still the standard BT one.

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Ordered 2 today - one for me and my mate said he wanted one - so should have two testers (both on Bethere) by next week.

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im ordering one tomorrow
im with BT
will post an updates for you cunts when it arrives

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i-plate arrived today
have installed it(piece of piss)
can take upto 3 days to see any results though so am waiting now

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Apparently mine has arrived...at work, but I decided to take Friday off. Will install it on Monday night.

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FUCK! I have the wrong type of BT box

But, I did a little investigating at work today and seems all the i-plate does is to negate the 'orange with white bands' connector...which you could as easily do by pulling out the wire as it's effectively redundant anyway.

My BT box only had 2 wires attached, doubt it would've made a difference even if the i-plate had connected...

...but I'd have liked to have tried anyway, in case there is some signal 'cleaning' that goes on within the i-plate

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i've been on cable for around the last 10 years but have got pissed off with my connection being throttled, so had a bt line installed last week as they are doing it for £30 until the end of the month.

So ADSL is completely new to me, and looked at the i-plate, but as the exchange is only round the corner i'll wait until my bethere connection is up on thursday to see what i get before i take the plunge and order one.

have a read of this , got some good info on there.

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its been 3 days now and still no change to my speed!
think i been skanked







for sale a bt i-plate (will improve speed by 1.5mb on average)

pm me for details (paypal only)

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"Important note :- The i-plate does not separate voice and adsl data and still requires the need for separate adsl filters on each telephone device.
If you already have an adsl NTE5 faceplate and/or have removed the ring wire, then there isn't any point installing an i-plate."

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I'm prolly a bit late posting this but you should prolly read this b4 buying ...

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/cabl...-faceplate.html

I bought this from here... http://www.adslnation.com/products/xte2005.php

Noticed a significant improvement.

Hi guys,

I know that virgin media is nothing to do with ADSL (at least the fibre optic broadband side), but does anyone know if one if these products have been made for fibre optic and not the phone line?

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Originally posted by phasetwo
I know that virgin media is nothing to do with ADSL (at least the fibre optic broadband side), but does anyone know if one if these products have been made for fibre optic and not the phone line?

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Originally posted by Anno
I'm prolly a bit late posting this but you should prolly read this b4 buying ...

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/cabl...-faceplate.html

I bought this from here... http://www.adslnation.com/products/xte2005.php

Noticed a significant improvement.

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Originally posted by Vampire
The limiting factor with fibre isn't the quality of the line back to the exchange (like ADSL), it's the amount they choose to limit you to so this product wouldn't help. With a click of a button they could give you 100Mb if they wanted.

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Sooo... BT have announced today that the I-Plate has been getting rave reviews after it was featured in the Sunday Times.

"Improvements to users' broadband speeds are not guaranteed - obviously it depends on individual circumstances. However, as so many of the user reviews say, for less than £10 it's worth the gamble."

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Sho...?ProductID=7256

Seems like it's a worthwhile product for a significant portion of broadband users.

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Being the proud new owner of a BT line, and now Bethere DSL, I don't think i'll need the i-plate.

Fastest speed is 24mb and i'm getting 23! Happy days!

Anyway, instead of spunking a tenner on one of these, why not just remove the orange/white bell wire? It's not as if anyone needs it these days (unless you're a retro retard with a bell phone)?

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I think that was in one of the reviews on the site I posted. They say that you should remove all wires apart from the two that are needed (I forget which... I think pins 2 and 5.. don't quote me on that though) as this in itself can cause a degradation of speed however the I-Plate could potentially increase your speed even further.

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So does your router definitley have to be connected to the socket with the i-plate?

Or can you attach the i-plate to the master socket, have your router connected to another phone point and it will still get the benefits (if it works)???

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So does your router definitley have to be connected to the socket with the i-plate?

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Originally posted by CARR73
Or can you attach the i-plate to the master socket, have your router connected to another phone point and it will still get the benefits???

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it's been well know for years to remove the bell wire .It doesn't do nothing anyway.
I had a problem with my connecton a few years back and then engineer removed the wire.
At that time it cost me around £60.
I was well pissed off.
I wish I'd done it myself as it's a piece of piss to do.

But yeah you don't need these face plates if you removed the bell wire.

I'm guessing it was removed here as well as connecting direct to the test socket made no difference at all.

Consumer feedback also suggests it has no efffect on upload speeds in any case which is a shame as that is a much bigger problem where I live than download speeds.

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Yes. According to the link in the first post the benefits (if any) will be even greater from a seconday socket than from the master socket.

Note that some other designs separate the phone and broadband signal completely so you will not be able to use a secondary phone outlet for a router with these.

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