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Filtered faceplate

Hi. I'm been watching a lot videos and reading a bit online but I don't think I understand correctly on how to "properly" do this.

As far as I watched, you remove your current faceplate, and you put something like MK3 on top of it, and done. Now, my issue is, in some videos I watched, I saw wires connected to the faceplate you take off, and in some the wires were not connected at all. I read a youtube comment saying:

"before you buy check to see if your wires are connected to face plate if they are not and are conected behind test socket i plate wont work"

Now that happens to be the case in my house. If I take off the faceplate I have right now, there are no wires connected to it. Does this mean it's pointless for me to get the Mk3? Because I don't really want to do any wiring myself as I know I would not do a good job.

Thanks.
 
I have the Mk3 fitted and I have no wires connected it works fine not sure why they on about it not working if no wires attached.
 
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Sounds like maybe your master socket isn't actually the master socket. If you take the front off the socket and the test socket doesn't have dialtone this is very likely:
http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/atta...328460302-master-socket-problems-dsc_0148.jpg

If it _does_ have dialtone on the above then you should be able to remove the flat face plate and put on a "SSFP / Service Specific Face Plate" aka. the filtered faceplate:
https://www.solwise.co.uk/adsl_splitters-faceplates.htm

If you don't get dialtone in the master test socket then is the socket near where the BT line comes in from the road or pole?
 
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Did it improve your speed as opposed to having a microfilter? If so, by how much?

That would be hard one when I was on ADSL adding the Iplate improved speed by very little, I then moved to FTTC where BT fitted the filtered faceplate the MK1. I have since upgraded this to Mk3. As I was already on FTTC before the change it is hard to say but if you keep the firmware up to date and make sure it is the BT complient, that increased my speed back into the 70Mbps from 50Mbps where it had slowly been dropping down over the years.
 
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