BT give away I-Plate Broadband speed booster

BT have just announced a free solution which should see millions of customers in the UK benefit from faster, and more reliable connection speeds. In a series of tests carried out and publicly demonstrated in March this year, BT Wholesale engineers showed how electrical ‘noise’ from electric equipment including TV sets, Xbox 360′s DVD players and ceiling lights, could seriously interfere with the strength and reliability of a broadband connection.

BT came up with a solution to help filter out the noise and therefore dramatically improve the performance of customers connections; by installing a simple plug-in filter into a BT NTE 5 master socket (those small white Bakelite boxes with the removable front panel?).

These Interstitial Plate filters, branded as ‘I-Plates’, isolate the bell wire – the third wire which runs alongside the pair of cables which carry broadband and telephone signals to and from the house – from the exterior interference.

Alternatively, you could isolate the bell wire yourself by simply cutting the wire out, but understandably not all punters are keen to do this, at risk of cutting the wrong wire and sabotaging their own connection. The tests in March showed how a noisy ADSL connection running at around 700kps jumped up to 3.8Mbps when an I-Plate was fitted to the master socket.

No notice yet if BT are planning to charge customers for an I-Plate, or if they plan to given them away free to BT Total Broadband customers, or any customers paying out their line rental to BT.

5 Comments »Posted by Tom on October 2nd 2008 in BT Broadband

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5 Responses to “BT give away I-Plate Broadband speed booster”

1. Ian Hughes said on 21 Jul 2009 at 8:55 pm #

   this is aload of bollocks! xbox’s do not interfear with broadband in any way at all! you need to go back too school i think mate!

2. Marcellus Pentecost said on 27 Jul 2009 at 8:58 am #

   I think that it is you who needs to go back to school. Specifically to redo GCSE English.

   It is ‘a load’ not ‘aload’, ‘interfere’ not ‘interfear’, ‘to’ not ‘too’ and don’t forget to begin sentences with capital letters.

   Actually, you’re not even ready for Key Stage 3.

3. Graham T said on 27 Jul 2009 at 10:53 am #

   How do I get One ?

4. Sean Lount said on 01 Jan 2010 at 9:08 pm #

   Mint love the above responces! You mentioned cutting the bell wire, assuming bt use the same wire for all homes, which is the bell wire, or how do i find it. Thanks

5. qwibbles said on 09 Jan 2010 at 8:21 am #

   So what is the purposes of the EC EMC directive on the prevent of mutual interference? Who is in breach of the directive? BT?

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