Bell Wire Removal?

I've just stumbled across this blog describing the disconnection of the bell wire to increase broadband speed, has anyone here done this I just wondered if it was safe and legal to do it: http://broadband-speedup.blogspot.com/

cheers! James

Safe enough and legal enough that its in our FAQ too
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/faq/sections/radsl.htm...

For those concerned over doing this there is the I-Plate option, http://www.thinkbroadband.com/videos.html

Lot's of people have done it. It is quite safe. It only helps if you suffer from noise on the line. If you are hesitant it might be worth posting your stats to see if you may benefit. See http://www.dslzoneuk.net/adsl_line_stats.php and http://www.dslzoneuk.net/socket.php

I disconnected the ring wire and it was the one thing that gave me the biggest improvement in speed. Well worth doing.

Thanks for the feedback. I removed it and my sync speed shot up 1.3Mbs - great!!!

James

If you do not have an NTE5 master socket with a removable lower half or if your extensions are all connected using plug-in adapters or splitters, it is possible to disconnect the bell wire by the following method which has worked OK for me.

Cut a thin strip of electrical insulating tape 3mm wide and 40mm long and stick it lengthways along the plug that goes into your master socket. Place the tape so that it covers the two middle pins (3 and 4), but leaves the two adjacent pins (2 and 5) exposed. Wrap the tape back along the other side of the plug so that it is stays in place when inserted.

See my photo at
http://www.picturebay.net/img/guests/78149114192/Pho...

This will disconnect the bell wire, without the need to cut or remove any wires.
Check that the phones still ring OK. If a problem does arise the tape can be easily removed,

Many thanks for your clearly explained tip - an easy and quick solution!

Good Idea and far easier then snipping wires, works for me.

Why would you cut the wire, just use a screw driver to unscrew the wire. The bell wire causes attenuation on the line causing your signal to noise reading to increase hence reducing your broadband speed by your service provider which is using rate adaptive ADSL ports which automatically sync at the best rate possible. You are best to remove the wire completely. To maximize your ADSL connection, I would suggest removing the bell wire and using a XDSL Pots Splitter at the main connection and dedicating a single jack for the ADSL. This would be the best solution.

Bell wire does not cause attenuation, it creates an imbalance in the twisted pair and thus is ripe for picking up noise

Had a problem when I was phoning numbers I kept getting talking clock. Managed to isolate the problem to the number 0 being mistaken for a 1 by the exchange.

Removing the bell wire fixed this.

Ok, can someone help out with this please as it's driving me mad. I've been meaning to remove my bell wire to try and get a bit faster internet for some time and was told it was number 3 i had to remove, but no info i'm reading is matching up with what my phone line socket looks like - Even the FAQ about it on this website.

First of all there is no 1-6 sockets with wires coming out of them! - I removed the outer cover and i just find another cover underneath with another phone socket which is apparently a test socket - theres no wires accessible here either so it seems a bit pointless having another layer for no reason but i could see wires under the next panel through a gap in the middle, so i unscrewed and removed the next panel instead.

Now I see 4 wires not 6, and they are connected into 3 or 4 different points (hard to tell where all the wires are goiing) and screwed into place. There is no numbering system (although i did see some letters) and the colours dont match the colours they are meant to be from what i've read either. There is no orange and white striped cable. All i have is this...

1 Orange cable
1 White cable
1 Black/Navy blue cable
and 1 Green Cable

Which is the bell wire? (colour please)

I read it was an orange and white strped 1 but as i said there isn't 1 and the closest i had was orange so i cut that and the internet went down!!! - So i've had to sheath off the ends and twist the wires back together again (I hope this won't cause my speed to be reduced!!) - The phone line was connected by a BT engineer in early 2002 if this helps although i think the socket was already there so not sure what he changed exactly

Assistance appreciated

Thanks

You need the outer 2 cables connected not the inner 2. Your repair may cause speed loss.

you shouldn't be fiddling with the cable at the back of a 2 part master, the o/w b/g pairs are two incoming pairs from BT - there is no bell wire there.

The bell wire would be wired off the lower front part of the faceplate you detached, no wires = no bell wire.

Ok, thanks. I sheathed the wires that i twisted back together over with blue tack - so hopefully there wont be any loss of speed through interference etc

Really?

Impressive, perhaps you could rewire my ring main for me