Roachmill Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 According to this ditty on The Register, BT have been testing "I-Plates". The idea being to isolate the bell wire thus cutting out noise / interference caused by other electrical gizmos around your house (or something like that anyway).To fit one, unscrew the face plate, clip the I-Plate in place in the socket and replace the cover. No need to call out an engineer, the telco said. Does it make a difference? We await independent tests, but the provider claims, based on "a benchmark survey of 36,000 lines" that it's carried out since first introducing the technology back in March this year, that users could see an increase of up to 1.5Mb/s, with some particularly lucky punters getting an increase of up to 4Mb/s. The caveat is that the speed boost - if any - is all entirely dependent on your electrical conditions: what kit you have running, what broadband package you have, your provider and so on. If your broadband isn't piped over ADSL, you're out of the loop anyway. BT also claimed the I-Plate may allow homes that have thus far been considered too far from an exchange to receive broadband to now be able to get it.Supposedly you should be able to get one of the magical things from your BB provider:The company estimates that 9m homes have these, and they'll be able to acquire the filters from their broadband providers, to whom BT will be shipping I-Plates from todayI hope this isn't the same as those black magic mobile phone signal enhancing stickers of yore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamnSaxon Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Or maybe they're just trying to distract your attention from the fact that they're pimping your surfing habits to an ad agency. If I had been a BT customer, I wouldn't be now. I'm not, and it's staying that way until they learn how to behave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Man 4mb seems so slow, I'm past 8mb down here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFusion Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 I have to shout ones and zeroes down the phone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Man 4mb seems so slow, I'm past 8mb down here! Where is a machine gun totin smiley when you need one.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 http://img2.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/fighting/fighting0002.gif http://img2.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/fighting/fighting0011.gif http://img2.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/fighting/fighting0035.gif All from http://www.mysmiley.net/ And of course http://img2.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/fighting/fighting0070.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinner72 Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Or maybe they're just trying to distract your attention from the fact that they're pimping your surfing habits to an ad agency. If I had been a BT customer, I wouldn't be now. I'm not, and it's staying that way until they learn how to behave. Don't forget BT aren't the only one's to admit to Phrom, and if you ever use google or yahoo to search for anything, or any web based email, you're basically offering the same info up to advertisers already. Personally i'd be much happier with ads targated according to my browsing habits, but i've been with BT over a year now, and while the service has been quick and reliable, the ads are still irrelevant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlin13 Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 The only way to really get to a new level in broadband is to run fibre to every home which will cost "rather a lot". BT aint gonna do it and I doubt that anyone else will, unless of course some of those oil funds could be used........ I wonder if all the money thats been spent so far on the VE project might not have gone a very long way towards the cost??????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu-Fred Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 I read sumwhar dat folk in Sweden git an avereege o' 50Mbps! Lucky "Illegitimate Children"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 The only way to really get to a new level in broadband is to run fibre to every home which will cost "rather a lot". BT aint gonna do it and I doubt that anyone else will, unless of course some of those oil funds could be used........ I wonder if all the money thats been spent so far on the VE project might not have gone a very long way towards the cost???????I wonder if all the money that will be earned from the VE project might go a long way toward the cost? But to get back on topic, the guys at Techradar seem to think this new BT thing is good: http://www.techradar.com/products/computing/networking-and-wi-fi/other/bt-iplate-465594/review Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooks Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 The idea of cutting the bell wire to enhance your broadband speed has been around for a long time now. Rather than getting one of these to replace the master plate then you could just pull out the bell wire instead. Plenty of tutorials hovering around the net if you Google for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Bridgman-Elliot Posted October 5, 2008 Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 > The only way to really get to a new level in broadband is to run> fibre to every home How about a wireless network ? You might some awfully tall mounting points, how about a handy wind turbine tower I'm on 24mbit ADSL here in London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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