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**Chris** · 08-11-2004, 16:10

Hi all - a friend who will be looking after our house when we move out next week is bringing his PC with him and wants to hook it up to our SACM. My subscription to NTL Broadband will remain active, so as far as the NTL network is concerned it's not a new subscriber, just a different PC. Thus far there's nothing complicated about that - I connect my work laptop to NTL when I'm at home without any trouble, but then my work laptop is already configured to run on an office LAN so it picks up an IP addy automatically, provided I reboot the SACM.

The complication is this: what does he need to do to get his PC to work on NTL Cable broadband when it is currently set up to work with BT ADSL? I have checked the K-Base for the article that describes how to get started without a Broadjump CD, but I'm not confident that the procedure it describes would be entirely relevant in this case.

Any help, particularly of the step 1, step 2, step 3, variety, that I could just print off and leave on the spare room desk for him to follow, would be very much appreciated!

08-11-2004, 16:10	#1
Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,084	Making a PC set up for BT ADSL work on NTL BB Hi all - a friend who will be looking after our house when we move out next week is bringing his PC with him and wants to hook it up to our SACM. My subscription to NTL Broadband will remain active, so as far as the NTL network is concerned it's not a new subscriber, just a different PC. Thus far there's nothing complicated about that - I connect my work laptop to NTL when I'm at home without any trouble, but then my work laptop is already configured to run on an office LAN so it picks up an IP addy automatically, provided I reboot the SACM. The complication is this: what does he need to do to get his PC to work on NTL Cable broadband when it is currently set up to work with BT ADSL? I have checked the K-Base for the article that describes how to get started without a Broadjump CD, but I'm not confident that the procedure it describes would be entirely relevant in this case. Any help, particularly of the step 1, step 2, step 3, variety, that I could just print off and leave on the spare room desk for him to follow, would be very much appreciated!