hmm thats odd - i may be wrong but I think they
are two different things.
the
Bell-Wire inductor is a 22mH choke that acts like a low-pass filter that wipes most of the xDSL signal from the ring-wire allowing only the phone signal to pass-through, this stops any interference thats in the xDSL part of the spectrum that's getting into the ringwire
(which is only in your extension wiring in the home) from back-feeding into the xDSL signal itself, and its only partially/mostly successful... I think anyway.
the
RF3 Filter attempts to strip interference from the xDSL signal
(that may be introduced anywhere down the line from exchange to nte) without affecting the signal itself..but people have reported that it does so, if the noise is having a massive impact on your broadband then RF3 may remove it but may also take the broadband in that range with it too, but result is stable broadband, albeit with or without lower speed, as
Roseway said he had 20% reduction in speed, I believe
B'Kat also had one installed.
if you read the iPlate page on his website it says:
How?
- Provide a filtered ‘bell wire’ which reduces the amount of noise picked up by home extension wiring from affecting the broadband ADSL signal.
- Provide common mode filtering of RF signals without affecting frequencies in the ADSL band.
to me this implies it has both a 22mH inductor and RF3...possibly anyway
if you take a look at the pictures of each one, the bell-wire inductor is a small white rounded thing, the RF3 is a bigger black unit with lots of copper wire exposed, looks like they are wrapped around a magnet - the RF3 is slightly larger than the 22mH choke, not saying they cant make smaller one...but...
RF3 filter is usually more for removing noise from your telephone line
Bellwire Inductor is for removing noise from the bellwire in your home
..thats the way I see it anyway
one thing I can tell you is that the SSFP your using does not have RF3, but your faceplate might have 22mH Choke.. the Bell-Wire Inductor is now fitted onto the actual faceplate of newer NTE-5's , SSFP would not have RF3 because its used for a VDSL service and they wouldnt want anything messing with the signal. also if your master socket is the only socket you have then you do not have a bell-wire, and even if you did the SSFP filters the broadband from the phone signal BEFORE passing it on to the extension wiring, thats the whole point of filtered faceplate.
RF3 FILTER ------
22mH CHOKE on back of NTE-5 maybe someone else can shed some light on this?it wont hurt trying an RF3 anyway, at least you can remove it if it has a negative impact.