Has anyone used one of these?!

 

http://www.dabs.com/products/bt-iplate---bt-broadband-accelerator-58LT.html?q=BT%20Iplate%20%2F%20BT%20Broadband%20Accelerator

 

My broadband is seriously slow at times (under 2meg connection when using online tests. Sometimes as low as 1 meg :crying: )

 

Anyway - ordered one of these (free if your a BT broadband customer - you just pay P&P charges of £1.20)

 

Tested before fitting - 1.4meg :thumbdown:

After fitting 2.8meg :thumbup:

 

It says to allow upto 48hrs for increase in speed.

 

Just tested now - 5.5meg!!!! :drool::thumbup1:

 

Well surprised!! Just thought I would share! :)

Ok I have reluctantly bought some of this snake oil and reluctantly installed it and reluctantly have to say Paul is right :D.

 

 

you say that like you are surprised!! :D :smartass:

haha...so will your COD battles be any shorter now you have more speed Mark?

haha...so will your COD battles be any shorter now you have more speed Mark?

 

Yes will lose quicker:tt2:

I think i will stick with my 50mb connection thanks, im never going back to dsl ;), unless of course BT do a nice 100mb connection!

Can anyone say if this device removes the ring wire from the socket or is that something else we can do to speed up connection?

Yes, it removes the bell wire. Quote, the BT Broadband Accelerator filters the 'bell wire' which used to be needed to make our old-fashioned analogue telephones ring. However, with today's touch-tone phones, this bell wire is now redundant and its presence in a master socket actually causes digital interference on the ADSL line.

 

 

Paul

ive just installed it and it's worked for me too. im awaiting an upgrade to 20mb from 8mb with Orange and (as they warned me) my line is crawling along at the moment.

i was averaging 0.87mb (!) before installing this, it's now up to an average of 0.91 (!). what difference it would have made when i'm up to full speed i dont know, but for a fiver and 5 min's installation, yep i think its worth it.

Does anyone know if it does anything else apart from remove the bell wire?

Does anyone know if it does anything else apart from remove the bell wire?

 

lol.. i had several bt engineers round my place a while back when having a line installed at my new place... i asked them the same question and they all blabbered on about filtering but had no idea about what it actually does or how it does it! prolly just a simple scam based on psychiological curiosity... nevertheless... iv just ordered 1 :thumbup: for £1.20 its worth a poke lol

Basically what BT is saying is that all the wiring for the secondary sockets around you house act as an antenna picking up electrical interferance & slowing your broadband connection speed down. This is basically a filter that stops this interference regardless of which socket your router is plugged into.

 

:whistling::smartass:

so it will be nice if we can find out whether it does anything else, other than removing the bell wire, hey Mark :clown:

so it will be nice if we can find out whether it does anything else, other than removing the bell wire, hey Mark :clown:

 

I guess it electically isolates the bell wire, therefore reduced interference.

I guess it electically isolates the bell wire, therefore reduced interference.

 

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so could you not just unplug the bell wire? or am i just being stupid lol. also do electrical cables effect it as my router sits right next to my fuse board and the mains tails run right past it