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Cock with a soc
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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 4:10am \| IP Logged

Not to sure if people already know about this but anyway.

I just bought an I-Plate which goes in your BT Master socket and filters out the Bell Wire and gives you improved speeds on ADSL.

The I Plate is about 10 quid and is only neccasry on older line installations ie probably not last 12 years.

So anyway I bought that and Top Range ADSL Filter and have just managed to improved my download speed by about 900k totaly worth it for 10 quid

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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 4:00pm \| IP Logged

lmao! FREEEEAKY! Someone was talking to me in the pub about this on Friday night! He increased is 8mb line speed from 2mb to 5.5mb with it. Great product!

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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 7:22pm \| IP Logged

presumably this just does what people have done for years anyway, which was to manually disconnect the bell wire in the socket.

did it yonks ago when i lived with my folks and they first got adsl, did make a difference although they always had a very good connection as only about 100-200m from the exchange.

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Cock with a soc
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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 7:29pm \| IP Logged

yeah thats all it does i didnt have a clue about bell wire until i found this

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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 9:32pm \| IP Logged

aye its a pain in the arse to do and i think illegal as it means fiddling with the master socket, a product you can just buy and plug in is very clever

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Cock with a soc
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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 10:49pm \| IP Logged

It is suprising un advertised by BT and any ISPS which amazes me i know its only like 10 quid but youd of thought

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Posted: 17 August 2009 at 8:41am \| IP Logged

yeah, manually disconnecting it is illegal aparently (anything behind the plate is BT property). This is a totally legal solution for removing the ringwire, plus the additional (unused) 4th cable.

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Posted: 19 August 2009 at 2:29pm \| IP Logged

Interesting. How do you know if a socket is openreach or not?

Ours has a little hammer icon in the corner. That it ?

wondering if that little device could boost my 200kbps up some more.

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Posted: 19 August 2009 at 3:45pm \| IP Logged

it has "openreach" on it:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tools/bt-master-socket.html

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Posted: 19 August 2009 at 10:17pm \| IP Logged

cheers !

Its the T logo, so i will defo give this a shot when i can get some fundage :)

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