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On 15/11/13 13:07, Neil Winchurst wrote: > I live in a fairly new house, 2002, in a small estate. The master socket > for the phone is just inside the front door. There are also extension > sockets in the lounge and upstairs in the master bedroom and one of the > smaller bedrooms. That sounds like my house :-) > Why all this going on about the master socket? Well, since I have lived > here I have always had my desktop computer in the smaller bedroom and > used the extension socket. This has worked really well. Now I find that, > for FTTC, I *must* use the master socket, which is in the entrance hall. > > This seems to be the scenario if I decide to go for fibre. An Openreach > engineer will come to install a 'Service Specific Front Plate' to the > master socket. He will also provide a modem (please note, not a router) > which will need to be connected to my router. I have found out that my > current router will not work so I will have to buy a new one. (It may be > that the engineer will also provide a suitable router.) > > Now my problem is that I want my router to be upstairs, not by the front > door. So I will need to find some way to get a cable from the hall up to > the bedroom upstairs. My feeling at the moment is that I can't be > bothered with the hassle and the cost. I already get about 12 Mb/s at > the moment, and that should be fine. That agrees with what I was told too, and I also decided it wasn't worth it for now. There's nowhere sensible to put a modem in our tiny hall --- the power socket is on the opposite side to the phone socket, so that would mean cabling one way or the other, plus a modem would be unsightly, no matter how tiny. If I could get the master socket moved to my office (immediately above the hall, but currently without a phone socket), or into the bedroom (which is where the current modem + router are) then that would be grand, but I don't want trailing cables, or too much drilling (for the W-A-F), and I wonder how ready the engineer would be to do such work, even if I asked nicely. Anthony -- Author of C++ Concurrency in Action http://www.stdthread.co.uk/book/ just::thread C++11 thread library http://www.stdthread.co.uk Just Software Solutions Ltd http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk 15 Carrallack Mews, St Just, Cornwall, TR19 7UL, UK. Company No. 5478976 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq