BT Broadband Accelerator

hellboy99

BT Broadband Accelerator filters out interference from your home phone wiring to help you go faster. There's one free for every BT Total Broadband customer if you order it here – and you only need to pay for the postage. Find out if it will work for you below.


"This is UK customers only", wonder will the same be made available to Irish customers.

http://www.pcformat.co.uk/blog-entry/roll-roll-get-yer-free-bt-broadband-accelerator-05-08-09

Roll up! Roll up! Get yer free BT Broadband Accelerator!

We're not entirely sure how BT's Broadband Accelerator works, but it does. The blurb says it disconnects the bell line in standard phone sockets to filter out line noise, which can boost your internet connection speed by about 1.5mbps.

The Broadband Accelerator is now available for free from the BT Site, provided you pay a meagre £1.20 for postage and packing. The only catch is that you have to be a BT Total Broadband customer to benefit from the offer. If you're with any other ISP on a BT line you can grab the Broadband Accelerator for £7.07

watty

It's to solve a problem BT created in UK that we don't have.

The capacitor for the phone to ring is in the master socket in UK.
In UK a 3rd bell wire is used.

Please NO-ONE install this here as it is for a different phone system.

Just ensure that if you have phone extensions they are fed via a high quality master DSL filter or micro DSL filters at each socket.

This was discussed before.

The improvement even in UK is ZERO if you have no extensions. Even with extensions the improvement is Zero UP TO 1.5Mbps and typically 0.5Mbps.

There is such a thing as master DSL socket here that assumes Modem is wired to it. It then feeds all the extensions. If your Modem is on an extension then that wire should be disconnected (from the other extensions in parallel) and connected to Master DSL Modem pins or else connect the other extensions to plug into the "phone" of a Micro DSL filter and modem extension into "modem" of the Micro DSL filter at the main socket where eircom line comes in.

Cabaal

Well said watty, phone setup in the UK is abit different to Ireland so that shouldn't be compared as the same.

hellboy99

Where can I get a new Irish Master Socket ?

kaizersoze

hellboy99 wrote: »

Where can I get a new Irish Master Socket ?

Don't think they can be bought. Eircom engineers install them, usually when the line is an amber pass (Pass, subject to confirmation) in their database. They sometimes install them when the customer requests an engineer install for broadband, but not always.

Have a chat with your local eircom tech and he'll probably give you one.

jor el

No one other than an eircom engineer, or recognised installer, are allowed to work on the master socket. If you pay line rental, that includes this socket, so eircom will replace a broken one for free.