to home install or not to home install(adsl)

what's so hard that you need a engineer? or is it easy to do it your self?



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Shed

Shed wrote:
> what's so hard that you need a engineer? or is it easy to do it
> your self?
>

It's easy if you follow the instructions, if you don't you can very
quickly get it wrapped around your neck, with simple things to....

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In article <bkkv5u$568$(E-Mail Removed)>, Shed said......

> what's so hard that you need a engineer? or is it easy to do it your self?
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Haven't BT now dropped the engineer install?

To answer your question, it's simple. If you managed to get your 56k
modem working then you can manage an ADSL modem/router.
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:00:22 +0100, Mugwump <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In article <bkkv5u$568$(E-Mail Removed)>, Shed said......
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>> what's so hard that you need a engineer? or is it easy to do it your self?

>Haven't BT now dropped the engineer install?

Indeedy they have. At the very least, BTOpenworld acknowledged that
no more Engineer assisted installations were to be provided. Other
ISPs are still quoting the service is available, but one doubts that
it really is.

See http://snurl.com/2bdr

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so when my exchange in enabled do i contact bt to put it on or do i just do
it all through an isp and they do the rest?

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> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:00:22 +0100, Mugwump <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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> >In article <bkkv5u$568$(E-Mail Removed)>, Shed said......
> >
> >> what's so hard that you need a engineer? or is it easy to do it your
self?
>
> >Haven't BT now dropped the engineer install?
>
> Indeedy they have. At the very least, BTOpenworld acknowledged that
> no more Engineer assisted installations were to be provided. Other
> ISPs are still quoting the service is available, but one doubts that
> it really is.
>
> See http://snurl.com/2bdr
>
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> UK Broadband Usergroup : http://www.uk-bug.net

> so when my exchange in enabled do i contact bt to put it on or do i just do
> it all through an isp and they do the rest?

Order it via an ISP and they make the arrangements...

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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:26:29 +0100, "Shed" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>so when my exchange in enabled do i contact bt to put it on or do i just do
>it all through an isp and they do the rest?

'Shed'

When your exchange is enabled, contact your chosen ISP (Pipex,
Nildram, BTO - whoever). When you order, you will need to do the
installation yourself.

Installation consists of installing a modem to your PC (or a router -
depending on your requirements), then connecting this via filter to
your normal telephone socket.

All engineer installations ever consisted of really, was the supply of
a filter that replaced your existing telephone face plate. Now the
filter is a seperate "in-line" device instead.


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> Installation consists of installing a modem to your PC (or a router -
> depending on your requirements), then connecting this via filter to
> your normal telephone socket.

Ummm - one thing. You don't put a filter on the ADSL modem - you filter
everything else. In many cases it will go into a splitter which has a
filter for the phone line, but i've seen a few cases where people are trying
to filter the wrong thing and nothing working.

David

> Ummm - one thing. You don't put a filter on the ADSL modem - you filter
> everything else. In many cases it will go into a splitter which has a
> filter for the phone line, but i've seen a few cases where people are trying
> to filter the wrong thing and nothing working.

If the modem has one of the funny shaped sockets, he may well need to use
the filter at the point at which the modem connects...

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> > Ummm - one thing. You don't put a filter on the ADSL modem - you
filter
> > everything else. In many cases it will go into a splitter which has a
> > filter for the phone line, but i've seen a few cases where people are
trying
> > to filter the wrong thing and nothing working.
>
> If the modem has one of the funny shaped sockets, he may well need to use
> the filter at the point at which the modem connects...

Thats the splitter - the ADSL side of the splitter is unfiltered though, its
just a passthrough. With those splitters its obvious what goes where, but
some people see all this talk about filters, buy a single line filter, and
then try to filter the ADSL too.

David