ADSL line advice (Part 1)

Some advice required please. I've been tasked with installing BT (Option 1
using a BT Voyager 210 router) broadband at a neighbours house. Line was
activated on Thursday but as yet the router hasn't made it. For the time
being its lost between BT and the Royal Mail, if it hasn't appeared by
Monday then BT say they will send another.

It seems to me a lot of the people I know and who have got broadband
installed can only get their router/modem to work on the main BT socket.
Most of these installations are using wireless routers so thats not a
problem. The installation I'm about to do must work on an extension socket
which is some distance from the main BT socket and goodness only knows what
part of the installation its on. Its a newish house btw with seemingly no
bad wiring.

So what I want to know is, while I'm waiting for the router to arrive I was
thinking of taking my own BT Voyager 2091 wireless router to the house to
test the phone socket. If I do this and plug it into the mains supply and
extension phone line socket the DSL light should stop blinking after a
period of time ... right? If it keeps blinking I've got problems so try it
on the main BT socket? I'm not going to connect it to the PC via USB or
Ethernet so when I bring it back home none of my settings should have
changed?

Thanks in advance ... John

PS: I'm about to compose a part 2

JC wrote:

> So what I want to know is, while I'm waiting for the router to arrive I
> was thinking of taking my own BT Voyager 2091 wireless router to the house
> to test the phone socket. If I do this and plug it into the mains supply
> and extension phone line socket the DSL light should stop blinking after a
> period of time ... right?

if you are a BT Broadband user it will probably go on the internet and work
fully. A lot of BT routers use loginIDs like (E-Mail Removed)
but in any case if you have the same bit after the @ symbol it'll work.

Phil

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"Phil Thompson" wrote in message

>> So what I want to know is, while I'm waiting for the router to arrive I
>> was thinking of taking my own BT Voyager 2091 wireless router to the
>> house
>> to test the phone socket. If I do this and plug it into the mains supply
>> and extension phone line socket the DSL light should stop blinking after
>> a
>> period of time ... right?
>
> if you are a BT Broadband user it will probably go on the internet and
> work
> fully. A lot of BT routers use loginIDs like (E-Mail Removed)
> but in any case if you have the same bit after the @ symbol it'll work.

My own ISP is Pipex. I just want to use the router to test the extension
phone socket.

John

JC wrote:

> My own ISP is Pipex. I just want to use the router to test the extension
> phone socket.

just checking the sync speed it achieves will be fine for that.

Phil

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"Phil Thompson" wrote in message

>> My own ISP is Pipex. I just want to use the router to test the extension
>> phone socket.
>
> just checking the sync speed it achieves will be fine for that.

Huh, do you mean how long it takes before the DSL light stops flashing?
Email me at tullyhubbert (at) yahoo (dot) com if you wish.

John

JC wrote:

> "Phil Thompson" wrote in message
>
> >> My own ISP is Pipex. I just want to use the router to test the extension
> >> phone socket.
> >
> > just checking the sync speed it achieves will be fine for that.
>
> Huh, do you mean how long it takes before the DSL light stops flashing?

The length of time isn't important.

Do you know how to access your router's status page ?

Graham

JC wrote:

> Some advice required please. I've been tasked with installing BT (Option 1
> using a BT Voyager 210 router) broadband at a neighbours house. Line was
> activated on Thursday but as yet the router hasn't made it. For the time
> being its lost between BT and the Royal Mail, if it hasn't appeared by
> Monday then BT say they will send another.
>
> It seems to me a lot of the people I know and who have got broadband
> installed can only get their router/modem to work on the main BT socket.

Do make sure that there's a filter on *every* socket with a phone.

Graham

"Eeyore" wrote in message

>> Huh, do you mean how long it takes before the DSL light stops flashing?
>
> The length of time isn't important.
>
> Do you know how to access your router's status page ?

Yes I do, but all I want to do while waiting for the router to arrive is to
determine if the ext phone socket in the neighbours house is going to work.
I just want to take my router, plug it in and see if the DSL light goes
solid.

John

On 26 Jan 2007, "JC" <tullyhubbert(REMOVESPAMTRAP)@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I just want to take my router, plug it in and see if the DSL light goes solid.

If you put an invalid login into it, on your own line, does the light "go
solid" (to show it gets into sync with the exchange) ? If so, take it
next door and you'll know it has sync there, too.

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:53:11 -0000, "JC"
<tullyhubbert(REMOVESPAMTRAP)@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Yes I do, but all I want to do while waiting for the router to arrive is to
>determine if the ext phone socket in the neighbours house is going to work.
>I just want to take my router, plug it in and see if the DSL light goes
>solid.

if you were being any help to the end user you would also want to
establish that it connects at a sensible speed.

By speed I mean the modem data rate to the exchange, not how long it
takes the connection to be established !

As many services are now "up to 8M" variable speed the presence of the
ADSL light could only indicate 160k down and 64k up as the worst case.

Phil