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MovedGoalPosts · 08-01-2006, 16:28

Installation simply involves a cable being run through your garden from a point in the pavement (there might be a little green or black circular disc out there) to your house. This cable should be buried. A small box is fitted to the outside of your house. From there a cable will be run to where you want the broadbadn modem. This will need to come through the house wall, so be prepared for some drilling. If it's muddy outside there's a risk the installer will have some on his boots. I'd have a dust sheet handy. Cables inside the house will normally be surface clipped.

The installer should check the modem powers up OK and that it receives the correct signal levels.

Connecting your computer to the modem is for you to do. You'll be left an install CD, but your advised not to bother with that, if you use ethernet to connect (preferred as it's faster - USB might not be capable of running at up to 10Meg). The only need to use the ntl disk is for USB drivers if you must do it that way.

You'll need to remove any settings from your PC from your current ADSL service. But I'd have an overlap between terminating your ADSL service and relying on ntl, just to allow for any unexpected problems with the install.

08-01-2006, 16:28	#2
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: New Installation Installation simply involves a cable being run through your garden from a point in the pavement (there might be a little green or black circular disc out there) to your house. This cable should be buried. A small box is fitted to the outside of your house. From there a cable will be run to where you want the broadbadn modem. This will need to come through the house wall, so be prepared for some drilling. If it's muddy outside there's a risk the installer will have some on his boots. I'd have a dust sheet handy. Cables inside the house will normally be surface clipped. The installer should check the modem powers up OK and that it receives the correct signal levels. Connecting your computer to the modem is for you to do. You'll be left an install CD, but your advised not to bother with that, if you use ethernet to connect (preferred as it's faster - USB might not be capable of running at up to 10Meg). The only need to use the ntl disk is for USB drivers if you must do it that way. You'll need to remove any settings from your PC from your current ADSL service. But I'd have an overlap between terminating your ADSL service and relying on ntl, just to allow for any unexpected problems with the install.