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As my PC is in an upstairs back room and the NTL cable is at the front of the property (I don't have it connected) I'd wondered how I'd get broadband fitted. It's a bitch to get a cable from front to back, because the house is surrounded by paving.I have a route to run a home installed phone line via the loft spaces.
Have we any users of this service here? Any tips? Someone said it was ok and someone else said that the boxes degrade the phone line.
Comments please.
I'd also like to connect a domain name to it for business use.Again ...comments on this?
ta
If the NTL point is in the front room and your PC is in the back room you could always run a small network.
1- Run a CAT 5 cable from the modem to the PC and install a cheap Network Card (less than a tenner)
2 - buy a wireless router and wireless network card, does the same thing as option 1 but without running cables
I had exactly the same problem. The cable comes in at the front of the house and the PC is at the back upstairs. ntl: just tacked a cable around the side of the house from the brown junction box on the front of the house up to the bedroom when they installed the cable modem with no problems.
Steven
I'm not with Free UK (I'm with Eclipse - very good!), but I do have ADSL broadband. With a microfilter it should not degrade the phone line.
I also have a wireless router, so I can connect anywhere in the house.
If I understand your question correctly, you are thinking of getting ADSL instead of using your NTL, as it is easier to run the phone line. That should work fine, but the other option is use NTL with a wireless router.
Mark
Dave, you don't say which service you take from NTL at the moment. I have NTL phone and digital TV and my broadband link is via the ethernet point on the set-top box. They went out of the wall with cat 5 cable and around the outside of the house and back into the room I have my PCs in (this is not underground, just tacked to the wall along the side of the house). The ethernet cable then has an ethernet to USB converter to plug into the PC (the installers said that they prefer to go ethernet end to end but I have found no problem with the USB converter and it leaves my ethernet card free to talk to my editing machine).
I have found no problem with using the phone and I don't understand why there should be because they don't share a circuit as far as I can see - I have two circuits onto my property, one for the cable and one for the phone.
As for your business domain - once you have access to the internet you should be able to hire some server capacity from one of many providers and they are just a TCP/IP address away, you don't need to use NTL for that.
Cheers, John
I had exactly the same prob in my house - simply bought the NTL (actiontec) wireless router kit (£99 from Dabs), router and modem sit together at front of house (by the cable entry point), with the USB adaptor that comes with it (just like an aerial that plugs in PC) upstairs next to PC. Works like a charm and a breeze to set-up.
And of course, no messy cables.
[This message has been edited by iMike (edited 11 February 2004).]
I don't have NTL anything as yet. The front of the house is tiled but i think I can get away with having the modem in the garage and either routing a cable myself or using wireless.
NTL are a quid or so more expensive but give a free modem. The wireless link would bring me up to the other co's prices but might be more reliable?