Ok guys, iPlate has finally arrived.

Installed, router rebooted and it now produces a sync speed of 5580 which is about 500 less than what it would be at the master with no extension wiring!!

So, was initially only getting a rough 4000 sync speed. This increased to 4500 with the bell wire disconnected, and now the iPlate has gained me another 1000 so I'm now looking for the remaining 500Kbps. Would the xte-2005 potentially achieve this? What would it actually do in order to increase the speed that we have not done already? Or could it be that he 500 has been 'lost' and I gotta accept it?

And as for the colours, BT's standard blues and 2's are applied (blue to 2, blue white to 5, and orange to 3 - no longer connected)

Thanks for your help guys, it really is appreciated!!!

Check that T2 >> T2 and T5 >> T5. If it's T2 >> T5 and T5 >> T2 it's wrong.

Ok, so as my sync speed increased, I thought I would let the line settle and hopefully the BRAS profile will change - unfortunately the sync speed has now dropped to 4996 (current) / 5120 (max) even following a reboot, so it seems the iPlate has increased it by 500 Kbps (which I'm still happy with)

Now I want to find the "lost" 1000 Kbps.

I followed each step on the website, I can confirm that there is no ring wire connected, the iPlate is installed and the line had time to settle, and t2 and t5 both go to their respective terminals on the extension box.

What's the next step? I read somewhere that you can't use an iPlate with xte-2005?

Cheers

Paul

In reply to a post by Boon147:

What's the next step? I read somewhere that you can't use an iPlate with xte-2005?

An iPlate should make no difference to connection speeds once the ring wire has been disconnected, as all it does is filter out the ring wire. Any changes noticed were likely to have been normal fluctuations in connection speed - or in your case the apparently abnormal fluctuations.

Having said that, if any phone extension cables are plugged into the phone socket of a dangly filter, then those usually contain a connected ring wire, so disconnecting fixed extension ring wires is not the whole story. An iPlate does, I believe, also filter the ring wire of a plug-in extension.

An XTE-2005 is simply a neat form of replacement dangly filter with two added features. First, it uses active filtering, not passive, but don't ask me to explain the difference, and it also filters out the ring wire in the same way as the iPlate does, including that in a plug-in extension.