BT Broadband Internet - Need some urgent advice
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- calcio
Hi folks,
I will be spending some weeks in Oxford. I'll be staying at a self-catering Apartment where they will install BT Broadband internet.
As far as I know, there is not yet a modem present. I presume that just like in my country, the BT folks send you a modem/router which you should connect with a splitter to the phoneline?
Do the people of BT do this, or should one have to do this yourself, givin the fact that I am a complete idiot when it comes to these things???
- UndoUndo0
When you sign up for a BT broadband account they send you the router to use.
I'd make sure the apartment owners have the router but you can use others.
I have BT but use a wireless belkin router no problem.
- Dancer0
They normally send one out, not a wireless one mind.
....but what do I know, I still run a 56k here....
*scuffs foot on floor
- calcio0
that's clear, but how do you fix the router? In my country (and I only know this because of a colleague) one has to attach the modem/router to the phoneline using a line-splitter.
Does it work the same in the UK?
- Wolfboy0
I use BT broadband. They send out the stuff and you set it all up yourself. But don't worry, you get a cd rom that take you through it step by step and it's very easy to follow.
- nicko0
BT send out 2 splitters also. If you need more you have to buy them from the BT website
- UndoUndo0
Yeah same deal in the UK, phone splitter into phone socket and then router into one side of the splitter and phone the other
- Engage0
yeah a simple splitter... pretty sure you can get them in Dixons or equivalent
- calcio0
But how easy is it to connect it to the phoneline with those splitters?
Here we have to basically cut the phoneline, redirect some of its wires, strip a part of the phoneline and then with some tool fix the splitter on top of that line and refix the phoneline. Pretty complicated for most women ;)
- calcio0
so in other terms, do I need to hire someone to do it for me. Or is it a matter of plug in and working?
- UndoUndo0
the splitters just plug in, then you plug everything else into the splitter super simple ™
- determinedmoth0
so in other terms, do I need to hire someone to do it for me. Or is it a matter of plug in and working?
calcio
(Jun 9 06, 02:07)Even if you do pay BT or whoever to do it for you, they dont seem to know their asses from their elbows. They never change the router's password from 0000 and are frankly useless. Plus they'll probably stick a CD-ROM in there and install lots of crap you dont need.
DIY - but change the password!
- nicko0
just plug the splitter in, don't monkey around wiv the wires
- calcio0
Pluggin in.... I can do that ;)
- paraselene0
it's complicated for everyone! don't feed the sexism, sister!
:D
- calcio0
I know, i know, but you have to give the boys the idea they are good for something =)
- mirrorball0
I have yet to be satisfied by BT's service. It sticks!!!
Was actually talking to one of their engineers when they called out to my house one day, it ended with him saying' "yeah I know! And they say were a communications company... Ballix"
- calcio0
that fills me with fear, but if all goes wrong I still have my wireless to hunt for unsuspecting and unsecured networks ;)
- nicko0
personally, I've never had a problem with BT boradband