Fiddling with the ringer wire!

Hi. Having read on a few forums and sites that you can remove the ringer/ bell wire from your main BT box, to improve speed, I did just that.

Now my connection speed, rather than going up, has dropped to a quarter of what it was. I tried to put the wire back, but to no avail.

HELP! Is there a specific way of putting the wire back? I've tried and tried.

Thanks!

Post your router stats now. Do you have any record of what they were before?

DownStream Connection Speed 480 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 256 kbps
VPI 0
VCI 38

I don't have a record of what they were before, sorry; but I do know that if I plug the router into the Test Socket the Downstream Speed gets to 2048 kbps.
I have panicked and just ordered a BT I-Plate!

Need the NM and attenuations also.

You need to remove bell wire.

In reply to a post by anilvij:

I don't have a record of what they were before, sorry; but I do know that if I plug the router into the Test Socket the Downstream Speed gets to 2048 kbps.

So there's something with your extension wiring.

I have panicked and just ordered a BT I-Plate!

That wont fix your wiring.

Can you post a picture on an image-hosting website, eg http://imageshack.us showing what you've changed and put a link here?

Or describe what colours are attached to which number pins?

This is where I'm at now, having removed the orange wire, a brown wire and a green wire and then re-inserting the two blues.

http://img7.imageshack.us/i/img6350x.jpg

What did you use to re-insert the blue wires?

And what is at the other end of that blue pair?

In reply to a post by anilvij:

This is where I'm at now, having removed the orange wire, a brown wire and a green wire and then re-inserting the two blues.

http://img7.imageshack.us/i/img6350x.jpg

So what pins were the orange, brown and green connected to?

Is this the same socket that the router is normally connected to, or is there another one?

It was green with the (mostly) white one and brown with the blue one. The orange one went into port 3 (I'm fairly sure about that). I kinda jammed the wires back in with a tiny screwdriver; there is one socket upstairs and the phone is working fine at the moment with the setup as pictured. I don't know what you mean by asking what was on the other end of the blue wires.. they just dissappear into the wall!

The blue wires connected to the faceplate there should be for an extension socket.

Does the socket upstairs work with the master socket faceplate unplugged as in your picture?

Oh - and using a screwdriver to re-connect IDC connections isn't a good idea as it forces the metal blades apart in the slot which can lead to a poor contact on the cable.