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Originally Posted by anotherhuman
Well a number of other forum users have said BT waived the installation fee because there wasn't much work to do (in their new'ish homes), so if this is in fact a BT line I'm hoping they'll waive the fee for me too.
When I last called them a couple of months ago I told them it was a new property and a BT line had never been used in the house. I was told in that case I would need a BT line installing, costing £125. But now that I've discovered this I think I'll tell them there's a cable coming into the house which I think may be a BT line, and see what they say.
Thanks for the help. 
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OK now a few more things have occured to me. (Note I don't have any experience with ADSL)
1. Is it standard to have only one BT line point in the whole house? We have 3 NTL ones at the mo.
2. Is installing points in other rooms in the house part of the BT line installation cost?
3. If this line in the living room is the only one, I presume both phone and BB will need to be connected to it (through one of those filters)?
4. If other points are installed in the house, would it still be best to hook up BB to this 'master' line in the living room for the best speeds? Or would that not make a difference?
Wow I never thought this thread would turn into this Thanks again. |
You maybe able to get BT to do a site survey, just to confirm exactly what work is required,
1. There is only normally 1 master socket. Unless everal different people have requested installation of the master socket in different locations (generally older houses) Or if there is a second line installed.
2. Bt dont generally install extensions anymore thats why they introduced NTE5 Master sockets. With an IDC tool from B&Q and a couple of wall boxes and a few metres of twisted pair you can easily run in your own wiring and conenct as follows.
White/Orange 4 - 3 Orange/White
White/Blue 5 - 2 Blue/White
White/Green 6 - 1 Green/White
Depends whether you enjoy DIY! There are plenty of EX BT engineers in the local paper who will do it for a small fee!
3. If you want to connect both to the master socket you will need a filter. You will also need a filter installed on every extension socket in the house. You can buy wall boxes with built in filters now for a little more, they look a bit neater I think.
4. It always best to use the Broadband on the master socket. Less to go wrong and less excuses for BT not to send an engineer when there is a problem. Also less line distance between modem and exchange.
I was quite lucky as I have completely gutted my house I have ran in Cat 5e for Network and Pairs for the Telco accross my house and installed all master sockets for ntl and BT all in one corner with my router, which makes everything nice and neat. I also hid all the ntl cabling behine the skirting board. If I were eevr to move to BT changing over would be pretty simple just a new router. Sky would be the only ones able to make a mess but I wont let them near here again!.