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Snap!!!!

You got there before me, I was just going to post a similar reply as I got exactly the same email today!

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Also have that in my inbox. Would like to have helped but will wait for now.

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You're still in with a chance of winning a prize first time around if you applied but aren't accepted for the trial.

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I've just had that email too, which is fair enough, but if I'm not good enough first time I'm not good enough second time. If they do get people backing out, I don't want to know.

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Well i got mine today and i am a little confused on how to connect it!

I was under the impression that it plugged into a spare ethernet port! But the instuctions say thast everything has to go through it!!

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Would it be possible to just to connect it to a spare port? I am running a D-Link DIR 655 and use the Gigabit lan and wouyld really want to go back to standard ethernet!

Cheers

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The modem connects to your routers WAN port. Then connect the "devices" WAN port to one of your routers LAN ports. Then plug everything else into the "device's" LAN ports.

On a different note, the device I was sent has stopped working. It just sits there, not giving me a connection at all.

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There should be a means to opt out of this if you no longer want anything to do with it, but as far as I can see, there isn't.

I guess I should have read the details more carefully, but it doesn't matter. If they send me any equipment now they've wasted their time, I shan't connect it up.

Re: Broadband Quality Trial
 

You really are so negative these days Mark. Chill out a bit :)

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Just email them and say you dont want to take part anymore.

Then the router can go to someone who actually wants to take part.

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Nope, it needs everything to go through it as it has to monitor when your connection isn't in use.

The only way around it is the way I have it set up which is to use a 3rd router, and have modem -> router -> testing kit -> gigabit router -> everything else, that way everything internet based will go through the performance testing kit, but local traffic can still be on a gigabit network.

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or you can buy a cheap router and have it between the modem and the test kit.

modem -> cheap router -> test kit -> existing gigabit router

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Which is setting it up exactly how I've said?

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No its like I said. ;)

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Your "or" consists of adding the words cheap, and existing, to what I wrote. I'm not seeing how that makes it an "or" which is an alternative, when you're saying exactly the same thing as I did?

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so i cant have it

modem -----> Test Kit ----->Dlink Dir 655