Malcolm Smith wrote: > >The computer I'm using is now being temperamental at times. There's nothing >wrong with the keyboard or screen so my wife found a good deal on a tower >unit, which we got a couple of weeks ago. On setting it up, I couldn't find >a modem connection and it dawned on me that computers today are aimed at the >high speed connection, tech games lovers - rather than the dial-up, film, >cycle and Meccano users found under this roof. > >Enquiring about broadband for me is much like the BBC 'Not The Nine O'clock >News' sketch, where a chap goes into a 'Hi-Fi' shop to buy a Gramophone. >I've been spoken to in an increasingly foreign language being offered >packages of things I've never heard of, much less want. Yet when I ask a >question, they don't seem to be able to answer it. > >I'm certain someone here knows the answers! My questions are: > >1. I need the telephone point moved to another room for this. Due to work I >plan to have done at the start of 2009, this may need to be moved when work >commences (possibly more than once) and again at the end. Can I have three >points set up for this at the start or am I going to need an engineer in >three times with three payments? > >
If you can, go for cable. It is faster and has fewer problems with connectivity. If you are more than 1Km from your nearest exchange, there will be problems with BT. Virgin is doing BB/TV/phone for £16per month if you take an £11/month phone package. So a total of £27 per month. They will install a modem/router when they do the install and I suspect they will be...obliging...when it comes to the location of the phone point. IAC, once past the white box that is the entry point, you can add extensions just as with any other phone. >2. I'm told I can get a television line in with this. This would suit me >well to rid of the knackered aerial on the roof. It apparently comes with a >connection that has to be used in the same room. Is relevant extension >cabling easy to get, as I'm not even certain I want the set on the same >floor, much less the same room. > > They won't take the aerial away.... AFAIK, the connection can be installed in any room. From the digibox, there will be a SCART cable to connect appliances. You can extend up to the limit of the SCART connector. >3. Lastly, is it possible to get a line for the computer and the television >connected by cable only within the house? When my wife uses a company lap >top with a wireless connection, I get a headache if I'm in the same room >with it for more than 10 mins and I've recently noticed this in a friends >house, where I later found he'd had wireless connection put in. > > Again AFAIK, Virgin supplies wireless modem/routers. But I suspect that they will have wired sockets as well. You should be able to check before you purchase. The wireless part can be turned off. You will probably have to do the cabling yourself. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
