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[iggy21uk]

Anyone fitted a BT I-plate to the NTE5 [mastersocket], supposed to filter household interference from the bell-wire on the extention wiring thus improving
connection speeds?

No good if you plug directly into master socket. Looked at severial
forums people have had mixed results.

[Dave-C]

I work for BT and we have been fitting a similar standard faceplate for ages, this has added circuitry to diss the bell wire from the A/B legs, this therefore does this for any extension connected, so, as long as you use a (z-blocker) ADSL filter in every extension with an appliance connected, you'd effectively be sorted.

To tell if yours is one of these, take it off and there is a small protrusion on the back (Like a small cylinder) they are usually only on a socket marked Openreach and some very late BT nte5's.

They do actually work, if you've already got problems that is.

DC

[iggy21uk]

It's on the front page of BT today   thought they had just been lauched been under test  says unscrew the face plate of the master socket clip in the I-plate in place and replace face plate over it.

Still needs filters. ?

[TheBoy]

Still using SSFp here, but then I'm lucky that I had a chat with the DSL SFI guys, and ended up with 2 top notch lines

[Ken T]

My home line is not much good. The ADSL feed comes from the master socket. If I plug in a phone extension the ADSL starts dropping out after 20mins.  

Ken

[iggy21uk]

My home line is not much good. The ADSL feed comes from the master socket. If I plug in a phone extension the ADSL starts dropping out after 20mins.  

Ken

Could solve your problem ? Google it!  Seems to say it helps with that

it costs about £10.00 or some ISP's are sending for free from what I have read.

[tmx]

aye they be a waste of money they were designed years ago and named the NTE2000 which in my opinion is far better than the I Plate!

some idiot CSE supposidly thought the idea up but the NTE2000 & The Posh Openreach Faceplate as Dave Said have being doing the same job for years!

the NTE2000 is the one to have as you dont need any microfilters and it can also gives a slight speed increase they can be picked up off eBay for very little

[Kevin Wood]

I've used a filtered faceplate on the master socket for years. Apart from the moronic I-branding I'm not sure if that is any different. The main reason I put it in is that the plonker who wired our house obviously hadn't grasped the concept of keeping signal cables balanced and wired the phone extensions using one conductor from each twisted pair in a 3 pair cable.

Being a radio amateur I didn't want the ADSL signals radiating from that disaster area so they go no further than my router by the master socket now.

I'd say it's always best to keep ADSL off the internal house extension wiring, and you don't have to mess about with filters then, but of course that means either locating your router by the master socket or running separate cable to extend the ADSL to where you need it.

Kevin

[Dave-C]

Ripped one to bits today, yes, the standard Openreach has the filter, just a point, some, most phones don't even need a bell wire no anyway, so, take your bell wire off to try it ( that's pin 3 on the faceplate)  If you look at the plug on your phone, very likely it's only a single pair now anyway...

DC