iplate alternative for older master sockets?

[klipp]

Does such a thing exist?  My master socket looks like this:



I've been told that I can't change the master socket to a new type myself, and that it would probably cost over £100 for BT to do it.  There has to be a cheaper alternative for the many thousands of us who have this older master socket.  Right?

[Steve]

You can still filter the socket  http://www.adslnation.com/products/xtf.php

[Den]

Who told you that you can not change it your self? There is no seal on it and there are only two wires coming in and two going out so it's a very simple job. At £100 each I will take orders and travel the country wide. I could do about 5 a day and retire after 12 months.   

[klipp]

You can still filter the socket  http://www.adslnation.com/products/xtf.php

Hi Steve.  Reading the info on that webpage, it seems that face-plate integrates the micro filter into the socket, so that a trailing microfilter isn't required.  It doesn't seem to mention irradicating interferance from the bell wire, which is the purpose of the iplate.

[Steve]

Can you still not remove the bell wire as you only need 2,5 connected these days?

http://www.techbroadband.net/forums/speed-tweaking/16-dummies-guide-removing-ring-wire.html

[klipp]

That's a thought...

[kinmel]

There is no need to remove that socket, simply add the ADSLNte faceplate/ backbox to it as a hard-wired extension and run everything off the new socket.

See tthis page at Clarity to see how to do that, but ignore connecting the bell wire to terminal 3

[Sebby]

Who told you that you can not change it your self?

BT. You cannot take the plate of an old-style master socket. It is the equivalent to taking the back plate off a new NTE5.

[Gary]

BT. You cannot take the plate of an old-style master socket. It is the equivalent to taking the back plate off a new NTE5.

Yep thats true, saying that as long as you dont mess up in theory you could do it and replace it if you had a visit, although I would never suggest  such action as it could get you permanently cut off the BT network, and a huge fine to help your pain along.

[Den]

Load of B*LLS   

[kinmel]

BT. You cannot take the plate of an old-style master socket. It is the equivalent to taking the back plate off a new NTE5.

then use a plug into the existing socket and take that to the new socket

[Sebby]

Load of B*LLS   

I'm not saying I agree with it, but it's fact.

[klipp]

Thought I'd report back to let you all know what happened next.  Well I followed the instructions in Steve's link, removing all wires from the back of the master socket apart from the two which are still required.  Restarted my router, and my download appears to have increased by 1mb (was 3mb, is now 4mb).  So for someone on a long line, I'd call that a great improvement.  My real-world download speed seems to be unaltered though, but maybe I need to wait for few days for my IP profile to catch up?

Thanks for the help anyway.

[Glenn]

It will take 3 - 5 days for the profile to catch up, good result though.

[Steve]

Sounds promising  If you wish to find out what's happening to your profile check with http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ As Glenn says  small profile incremental increases take a lot longer than a large upwards jump in sync rate.

[klipp]

Seems like my profile has caught up.  Only took a day.

Before:


After:


Well chuffed !!

[Glenn]