FTTC

[psp83]

For the template, I turned my modem upside down and put a piece of A4 paper on it and pushed a pen into the holes.

Put paper on the wall, mark the holes and put screws in, Simples!

[Lance]

Mine wasn't installed to the wall either, just left to be freestanding on the back of my tv unit next to my router.

[.Griff.]

http://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,26507.0.html

[David]

Thanks Steve no he just did it and was gone he left them stacked up but I noticed they were very hot indeed so just doing that now for both ventiatlion and tidyness 

[andrue]

For the template, I turned my modem upside down and put a piece of A4 paper on it and pushed a pen into the holes.

Put paper on the wall, mark the holes and put screws in, Simples!

I already had two screws in place that fit exactly. Ironically they were from my old Home Highway box.



Or is it irony? Could it be a rare example of good planning and consistency by BT?

[pctech]

Home highway? you must be posh then, some of us could only afford 33.6 

[Polchraine]

I already had two screws in place that fit exactly. Ironically they were from my old Home Highway box.



Or is it irony? Could it be a rare example of good planning and consistency by BT?

Just BT ensuring that the fixings points are in standard locations - there are industry standards/agreements that define the pitch of holes and the size of screw they are designed for.

[Steve]

I think the 7800N is the same template.

[David]

I will just use a pencil 

[andrue]

Home highway? you must be posh then, some of us could only afford 33.6 

Lol, I couldn't afford to run bonded channels very often though. I don't think BT ever offered an 0800 bonded service. I vaguely recall someone saying it was because BT didn't want to encourage it. They pointed to a document that said bonding put too much load on the CPU at the exchange. Apparently BT went for a software solution rather than hardware or somesuch.



ISDN was great for gaming though. Better than ADSL at the time. You had far more consistent pings and I think it was the same guy said it was because I had a dedicated pipe through to the backbone whereas ADSL was consolidated at the exchange. Happy days. Slower...but happy

As a side note when I finally switched to ADSL I was so concerned that I might be too far from the exchange that I paid for an engineer install. At the time that was the only way they'd restore HH if it didn't work for no cost. In hindsight I may have been a bit pessimistic since eventually my line gave me a 14Mb/s sync.

Ah well - it meant I had a filtered faceplate as well.

[David]

Just wondered is the upload on the low side ?

[andrue]

Just wondered is the upload on the low side ?

I would have said so but not sure how the upload speed follows the downstream. Is your connection 40/10 or 80/20? If you're on 40/10 then the downstream is pretty reasonable in which case the upstream should be better. However if you're on 80/20 then the downstream has reduced a lot and perhaps the naff upstream is reasonable.

Or are Plusnet offering a 40/2 product like I think Sky used to?

[Steve]

I got the impression David was on the 2mb upstream product not that that's a problem as the majority of us don't need it any faster. It doesn't take long to say 'pardon'.

[David]

Had to double check and think you are correct I thought I was on 40/20 

[Steve]

I think currently it's 40/2 with the Sheffield ISP however unless your photo uploads are too slow you should be ok.

[David]

Thanks Steve in typical David fashion I took more notice of the whole thing without realising the different things but FTTC is new so I wont be too hard on myself

[Steve]

The 40/10 and 80/20 options are more expensive per month and I believe will be offered by Plusnet sometime in the future. I think unless your running a website from home or uploading loads of photos regularly it's not going to be an issue. Certainly for myself I'd cope with 40/2.

[David]

Your right Steve it isnt an issue I just noticed the low uploads 

[MisterW]

David, If you really want faster uploads you could opt into the 80/20 trial. There's no increased costs at the moment since its a trial, whether there would be an increase later once the product goes live I'm not sure. In the past usually triallists have been able to keep the trial product for no increase.

[David]

That did it   

[zappaDPJ]

That looks pretty damn good to me

[David]

 

[MisterW]

That looks pretty damn good to me Anyone ( unless of course you've got FTTP )

[David]

That looks pretty damn good to me Anyone ( unless of course you've got FTTP )

No just plain old FTTC Ian

[pctech]

I can technically get FTTP here but am just too tight.