When to buy kit......

My exchange is being enabled in a week. No ISP apart from BT will take an
order on the exchange yet. When following the BT order process it states my
line will be fine with 512k (which I want) but may need an engineer to get
1mbs.

Should I be confident enough on that basis to order the wireless kit I want
or would I be better to hang back in case it wont work? I want to avoid any
delays but don't want to be stuck with kit!

Dave

Dave P wrote:
> My exchange is being enabled in a week. No ISP apart from BT will take an
> order on the exchange yet. When following the BT order process it states my
> line will be fine with 512k (which I want) but may need an engineer to get
> 1mbs.
>
> Should I be confident enough on that basis to order the wireless kit I want
> or would I be better to hang back in case it wont work? I want to avoid any
> delays but don't want to be stuck with kit!
>
> Dave
>
>
Order the kit you want.
You only want 512.. and they can give you that so you will get your
adsl. So get kitted up ready to go.

Dave P wrote:
> My exchange is being enabled in a week. No ISP apart from BT will
> take an order on the exchange yet. When following the BT order
> process it states my line will be fine with 512k (which I want) but
> may need an engineer to get 1mbs.
>
> Should I be confident enough on that basis to order the wireless kit
> I want or would I be better to hang back in case it wont work? I want
> to avoid any delays but don't want to be stuck with kit!
>
> Dave

Why not order the whole damn lot through BT? (yeah - I know its not the
cheapest route). That way, if they fail to provide, they'll take their kit
back
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:16:05 -0000, "Dave P" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>My exchange is being enabled in a week. No ISP apart from BT will take an
>order on the exchange yet. When following the BT order process it states my
>line will be fine with 512k (which I want) but may need an engineer to get
>1mbs.
>
>Should I be confident enough on that basis to order the wireless kit I want
>or would I be better to hang back in case it wont work? I want to avoid any
>delays but don't want to be stuck with kit!
>
>Dave
>

I order my kit as soon as my exchange went live. £170 router /
firewall etc, the works! Then BT advised that due to the quality of
the wires in our village no-one could get actually broadband.

Only used the hardware 12 months later when I moved house and area.

Thanks.

Rich
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Mikee wrote:
> Dave P wrote:
>> My exchange is being enabled in a week. No ISP apart from BT will
>> take an order on the exchange yet. When following the BT order
>> process it states my line will be fine with 512k (which I want) but
>> may need an engineer to get 1mbs.
>>
>> Should I be confident enough on that basis to order the wireless kit
>> I want or would I be better to hang back in case it wont work? I
>> want to avoid any delays but don't want to be stuck with kit!
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
> Order the kit you want.
> You only want 512.. and they can give you that so you will get your
> adsl. So get kitted up ready to go.

Sorry but I have to disagree with you as the 1meg line limitations are the
old 512k ones, there are no stipulated limitations for 512k, it's a suck it
& see if it works situation.

Whatever the OP does he will not be able to check to see if his line can
carry a DSL service without some type of DSL kit to check with, but it may
be better to beg/borrow a friends just to see if it will work before going
out & buying anything, or signing up with an ISP who provide a cheap USB
modem 'free'. You don't have to use it after you've confirmed it works &
you won't be stuck with anything if it doesn't...

"Dave P" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> My exchange is being enabled in a week. No ISP apart from BT will take an
> order on the exchange yet. When following the BT order process it states my
> line will be fine with 512k (which I want) but may need an engineer to get
> 1mbs.
>
> Should I be confident enough on that basis to order the wireless kit I want
> or would I be better to hang back in case it wont work? I want to avoid any
> delays but don't want to be stuck with kit!

Pipex supplied my equipment FOC. When I was sure that my line was OK I bought a
router and keep the USB modem as a spare, so that if I ever get problems I can
be fairly certain whether the problem lies with my ADSL modem or the BT service.

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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:34:20 -0000, "Paul King"
<(E-Mail Removed)> strung together this:

>Why not order the whole damn lot through BT? (yeah - I know its not the
>cheapest route). That way, if they fail to provide, they'll take their kit
>back

I thought that only applied to new lines. Or is this a 'BT the ISP
thing'?
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SJW
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