Ring wire help please!

[solidstan]

I have read abit on these forums about the ring wire.
I cant quite grasp where this ring wire is..

Is it a wire coming from outside, to the main BT master socket?

If so, i dont understand. I have opened the main master socket and it only has two wires coming from outside. Orange and white, connected to A and B.

[Brian69]

No the ring wire does not come from the outside, leave the wires to A and B alone. The ring wire connects to "3" on the faceplate, it's only there if you have extension sockets connected to the faceplate at the master.
If you do, all you have to do is remove the wire or wires connected to "3" at the master socket.

[RUNITDIRECT]

You don't need the ring wire if you have ADSL with micro filters(or filtered faceplates) on extensions as all(decent!)micro filters have a capacitor built in for the ring. A lot of modern phones don't even need this at all. The latest version of the NTE5 has a filter on the ring wire-see our website for specs on the latest NTE5.

[al85]

Again a little unsure what I can hope to achieve by messing around with the faceplate. If I were to remove the 3rd wire do i loose specific services and would I then need to do anything else e.g get a microfilter?

Secondly would changing the faceplate for example with "BT ADSL Faceplate for NTE5 Linebox" achieve the same thing as removing this 3rd wire. As you can imagine I am reluctant to start messing around with wires when i could loose my internet completely.

My current stats accroding to my router are:

ADSL Link - Downstream - Upstream
Connection Speed - 2336 kbps - 512 kbps
Line Attenuation - 49 db - 15.5 db
Noise Margin - 8 db - 18 db

And im connected at:

DownStream Connection Speed 2336 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 512 kbps

My service is a 16mb service.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.
ali

[NewsreadeR]

The ringwire is for the older type of phones. Normally, you would only need pins 2 and 5 connected. These are usually, white / blue and blue / white.

If you remove the ringwire, it would eliminate any interference usually. Having removed mine years ago, I saw a huge improvement.

Its worth a try if you are confident.

[RUNITDIRECT]

Or a better method is to fit either a newer NTE5 faceplate which has a filter in(what the BT iPlate does) or fit a filtered faceplate. Both leave the ring wire in place but give the benefits of removing it.

[Ned Ludd]

Nice little run down here ==>> Bellwire fix

[Smithy99]

Originally Posted by RUNITDIRECT

Or a better method is to fit either a newer NTE5 faceplate which has a filter in(what the BT iPlate does) or fit a filtered faceplate. Both leave the ring wire in place but give the benefits of removing it.

Hi runit, could you add a link to the specific faceplate on you sig? You sell that much stuff on your site it can be a little bewildering for people not so sure what they need.

[al85]

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