Terry_P wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:48:26 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:
I have an Iplate, purchased on Ebay at huge expense, and I am getting
up to 1.5MB increase in download speeds. It takes a little while to
rebalance itself but I seem to have moved from about 1.8MB to 3.3MB.
One question a friend has posed to me is - my Iplate is in the Master
BT Socket. My Broadband is connected directly into that socket. My
friend has a BT Master socket, but his internet is connected directly
into an extension socket. What benefit would an iplate be to him?
Roger
That is a question I would like answered too. I have a new house with
integral garage and the BT Master socket is in the garage. I connect
my router into the socket in the bedroom above and it is the first
socket from the BT master socket. Would there be any benefit from an
Iplate in this situation?
TIA,
Terry_P
I don't profess to be an expert on the iplate but as I understand it, it
adds a high pass filter to the 'ring wire' so that ADSL data only goes
down the proper twisted pair to extensions (unless there has also been a
NTE filter plate at the master socket) and no 'one-legged' version of
the data escapes down the ring wire - causing an unbalance in the data
being sent around the house to extension sockets.
The whole advantage of fitting the NTE filter plate is that the ADSL
data is taken off the line at the earliest opportunity and not sent
around the house to multiple sockets. Each one of these can provide a
'mis-termination' to the data which can cause interference and
distortion to the ADSL signals or act as a pick-up of unwanted
interfering signals from electrical appliances etc.
(think like a ripple in a pond where anything sticking up out of the
water causes reflections which can cancel out the waves completely -
just the same in electrical signals in wires)
I am sure there will gradually appear people's experiences with the iplate.
In your situation, I should (temporarily?) connect your router (via a
filter) to the test socket behind the lower plate of the NTE.
If that makes a significant improvement in performance, consider fitting
a NTE filter and running a separate RJ11 up to your bedroom.
Maplin or CPC sell long RJ11 cables. No need to be ripped off in PC W****d
Mike