With the national rollout of the 8 Mbps service,
many people are receiving a much lower speed than
their line is capable of.
The main cause of this is down to poor or incorrectly
wired extensions and the setup of microfilters.
Even if you think your extensions are correct, this
page may help you vastly improve your connection
speed, stop disconnections from happening and generally
improve the stability of your broadband.
Below is the HTML guide. If you prefer the interactive version, click here.
Please note that your master socket must be a standard
NTE5 like the image in Step 1 below. If it is not,
you may still try this guide, but it may be slightly
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Testomonials
Yesterday I had a look at ways of improving
speed and found that more than two wires were connected
to my extension cable. After clipping out the third
my line speed jumped from 4.0mbs to 7.2mbps. There
was no immediate increase of download speed when
I did this yesterday but as of today my download
speed has increased by more than 150kbps!
This tutorial proved invaluable to me.
I've just followed the tutorial and removed wire
3 from my extension ( wired by the previos owner
) and my sync speed increased from 4.5meg to 5.6meg,
that's almost 25%.
I got rid of my old flaky extension going down to
the shed and my sync speed went from 4.5 to 7.6,
and by taking the wires out that were not needed
I have reduced the errors I get.
I visited a friend today who went Max a couple of
months back. Speed when I arrived 1.6 megs. Took
a look at the master socket - pulled out the ring
wire (terminal 3) up jumps his speed to nearly 4
megs.
The noise margin increased considerably once i disconnected all the wires from the sockets except 2 and 5.
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If you get a much better connection when performing
Step 3 (Using the test socket), it is highly likely
there is a problem with your extension(s) - as this
test bypasses your extension wiring completely. Check
that all other sockets are correctly wired as in Step
4. Remember, only wires 2 and 5 need to be connected
in all sockets you have.The colour of wire 2 needs to
be the same on every socket, as does the colour of wire
5. Eg, if at your master socket, 2 is blue and 5 is
blue/white - this needs to be the same in every extension
socket you have.
The below diagrams show you the positioning of filters
required for broadband to work properly. Hover part
of an image to see a tip.
Take particular note of where the filter(s) need to
be placed. This is essential and if incorrectly setup,
will stop the broadband from working.
Example One
(Telephone and modem)
Example Two
(Telephone and modem with an extension)
Example Three
(Telephone and modem with a hardwired
extension and second BT socket)
If you are unsure of how to proceed, or are still having
problems, please post on our forum
and we will do our best to help.
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