BT Accelerator

[x332race]

Having suffered low Broadband speeds for many years I came across an advert for the BT Accelerator the other day...basically this cleans up any interference on your line and this helps to boost broadband speed. As a BT customer, it was only going to cost be the price of postage so I went for it. Got it the other day and fitted it....at first seemed to make little difference to the speed of may connection but to be honest the literature that came with it said that the full effect may not be seen for about 48 hours......48 hours later, the download speed of my connection appers to have increased significantly.

Note I am in a village about 2 miles from the nearest exchange.

Before fitting. Download 1,000 kbps, upload 370 kbps
After fitting. downloas 2,400 kbps, upload 380 kbps

All I can say is that fitting the Accelerator does appear to have made a difference, at least in respect of Download speeds. For the price of postage, worth fitting!

 

[npuk]

You would have got the same result by disconnecting the ring wire in all your sockets. It is not needed for modern phones and it is what causes the interference.

Your best off using a master socket filtered faceplate like the below. Using it you wont need a filter at other sockets in the house and if you dont plug your modem into the master socket you can run a dedicated unfiltered extension for the ADSL modem.

Clarity*::*ADSL*Filtering...

 

[jasonyw]

There is a number of factors that causes slow speed. As BT said 9 out 10 it the consumers who is not following the guideline, filter, not using the right connection. Get a BT engineer to come round to fix it for £90. I used to work as one, if they cant fix it, you pay nothing.

As you said you live in a village you may be the 1 out of 10 because of the old copper wire that may be the cause of the slow speed that BT cant do anything about it unless they upgrade the telephone exchange or the unlikely to upgrade to optic fibre. Do you want to pay £45,000 for it?

 

[nickcc101]

I fitted the BT accelerator a few weeks ago, just paid for postage as on BT total broadband.
Seems to have increased the download speed by about 25% on my desktop on XP and about 50% on my laptop on Windows 7. I live about 1 mile from the exchange.

 

[x332race]

There is a number of factors that causes slow speed. As BT said 9 out 10 it the consumers who is not following the guideline, filter, not using the right connection. Get a BT engineer to come round to fix it for £90. I used to work as one, if they cant fix it, you pay nothing.

As you said you live in a village you may be the 1 out of 10 because of the old copper wire that may be the cause of the slow speed that BT cant do anything about it unless they upgrade the telephone exchange or the unlikely to upgrade to optic fibre. Do you want to pay £45,000 for it?

Looking at other connections in my vicinity, we all have a similar, relatively low, broadband speed...the accelerator defiantly has helped to improve my connection, so I would recommend it to others in a similar situation. I am pretty sure we have old copper wire connections and, no I don't want to pay £45,000 for fibre optic (in fact 2,500 kbps is sufficient for my purposes at present)!!

 

[grober]

The thing lots of folk's don't realise is that BT Broadband systems down regulate broadband connection speed automatically till a reliable service[ according to their criteria] is achieved. This can happen very quickly- Unfortunately the system can be slow to up regulate if things improve- hence the 48 hours delay.

 

[flango]

NPUK is spot on all it does is sever the bell wire connection, the limiting factor an BB speed is distance from the exchange and the data over copper problem. I suffer exactly the same as I live in a Village 5Km from the exchange and best download available is 2.4 Mbps

However BT do realise that as their infrastructure is built on copper and not fibre then they need a solution to delever high speed BB down copper or an alternative, so there are 2 solutions coming, one up to 50 Mbps over copper due in Jan 2011 and the second which is a Wi MAx Cloud over towns and cities that will allow fast BB connection without cables, Wi Max Gen 1 could run at about 10 Mbps but Wi Max Gen 2 will run about 100 Mbps and due some time next summer (2011). Two test sites will be operational very shortly Glossop in Derbyshire and I think its either Spalding or Louth on the East Coast.

How do I know? My Nephew is in charge of the program.

 

[x332race]

NPUK is spot on all it does is sever the bell wire connection

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Well if thats all it does, it seems to work...Broadband speed has risen for me since I installed it, so it has been a worthwhile investment.

 

[flango]

NPUK is spot on all it does is sever the bell wire connection

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Well if thats all it does, it seems to work...Broadband speed has risen for me since I installed it, so it has been a worthwhile investment.

Same with me. I was running about 1.7 Mbps until I read on this forum about the bell wire connection which was still asscociated with older connections, confirmed it with my Nephew and then disconnected it and a few days later I was running at a consistant 2.4 Mbps so it definitely does work.

 

[BTB 500]

Interesting thread, we've had about 3 mbps at times but it's more like 1.5-1.8 most of the time. So some good ideas here.

 

[crockers]

I am so absolutely cheesed off with my speed - supposed to be 1mb - I too live too far from the exchange. Used to be up to 512kb so I suppose that this is a great improvement on paper.

Problem is early in the mornings I get 800kbs - 900kbs so not far off the max.
Then as the day progresses it drops and drops and drops until I get around 100kbs not much better than dial up...

I live in a new house (6 years old) so am assuming there is no bell wire (dont have a master socket where the phone line comes into the house).

So any ideas what I can do? I am assuming it is max contention ratio of 50..

Am with AOL - would switching to BT make a difference as I am on a BT line.

 

[npuk]

You will have a master socket it is the first socket where the line comes into the house, but it may not be a NTE5 type. Speed will drop in the evening due to more people using the internet and in the evening the line SNR drops so this can cause slower speeds.

Bell wire could still be connected, no way to tell without opening up a socket. You only need terminals 2 and 5 connected.

Adding a NTE5: http://www.clarity.it/telecoms/nte5.htm

 

[Gridlock]

Move house or wait a few years - unless Virgin cable your area these are pretty much your choices

You can get a satellite downlink if you are eager to download huge amounts of data though, they're a very interesting bit of kit...

 

[Baron_Samedi]

Satellite being for the fat of wallet, methinks, but I like your style

 

[Baron_Samedi]

You will have a master socket it is the first socket where the line comes into the house, but it may not be a NTE5 type. Speed will drop in the evening due to more people using the internet and in the evening the line SNR drops so this can cause slower speeds.

Bell wire could still be connected, no way to tell without opening up a socket. You only need terminals 2 and 5 connected.

Adding a NTE5: Clarity UK - ADSL BT Linebox Adaptor Faceplate

Remembering of course, that the new NTE5 should be installed as per the diagram and not (OMG) replacing the original master socket....

 

[crockers]

You will have a master socket it is the first socket where the line comes into the house, but it may not be a NTE5 type. Speed will drop in the evening due to more people using the internet and in the evening the line SNR drops so this can cause slower speeds.

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Strange as BT has a big box by the front door but no socket inside the house. All we have are 4 chrome sockets. One in kitchen, one in lounge one upstairs(all 3 at opposite side of house)...

 

[npuk]

Normally you have the box outside the house. A cable goes from that box to the first socket in the house which will be the master socket. The other extension sockets should be connected to the master socket.

 

[Frank O' Phile]

I am so absolutely cheesed off with my speed - supposed to be 1mb - ....

1Mb? Blimey, when did you start uploading this post?

 

[jasonyw]

I am getting 7Mbps with talktalk.:bannana:

For those still not happy with the speed here your opportunity to shop around. thinkbroadband :: Broadband Speed Test

 

[jasonyw]

I was looking at BT advertisement on the Daily Mail, it boasts up to 20Mbps.

Anyone achieved this speed yet other than optic fibre?

I used the speed checker as I am still with talktalk they claimed to offer 5Mbps when I tap in my postcode, I already got 7Mbps with talktalk!
What is the incentive to move to BT and pay more?