Any ntl engineers out there?

[miniandy]

As above really.

I want to move my broadband connection from one room to another, and I'm looking to find out how easy this is to do.

Cheers

[CommanderJameson]

miniandy said:

As above really. I want to move my broadband connection from one room to another, and I'm looking to find out how easy this is to do. Cheers

If you've got about sixty sheets, get a cheapo wireless router and a wireless network card for the computer. Job done, no need to involve NTL.

I believe they charge in the region of fifty smackers to move the cable around.

(The Commander recommends Buffalo routers and Netgear wireless cards)

>> Edited by CommanderJameson on Sunday 26th February 18:11

[paulie-mafia]

Yeah I'd avoid getting NTL to move the cable for you unless you want a dirty great big cable tacked onto the skirting all the way across your house. They're not the tidiest of installations!

[polus]

miniandy said:

As above really. I want to move my broadband connection from one room to another, and I'm looking to find out how easy this is to do. Cheers

Youll be needing an 'NTL Technician' then (sorry had to get it in)

Ive moved mine, several times (rented house).

Depends what you want to do but as long cables the same length then just move it. If you want to completly re-route it all the parts (connectors...etc) and coax cable can be bought from www.maplin.co.uk/ , http://rswww.com or www.farnell.co.uk

I just moved mine and still used the same attenuator without issue

>> Edited by polus on Sunday 26th February 18:16

[miniandy]

Thanks everyone.

I had the broadband installed when I first moved in (new build home so it's all nicely hidden) and there are ntl sockets everywhere. I was just looking to see how easy it would be to move the internet connection from my bedroom (where the wireless router and cable modem sit untidily on the floor) to the living room where the digibox and the other wireless router are. After 5 minutes with a screwdriver I can safely say it's a piece of cake moving from one point to another, as the wires are already there. Job's a good 'un!

[miniandy]

Ok I have now discovered that I need a splitter to make this work properly. Maplins are shut. Does anyone know if you can use your set top box as a modem?

Cheers

[polus]

Some of them have that ability however the MAC address of the modem is registered on there network and if you change then it might well be refused access (as I havent tried it, Im not sure).

>> Edited by polus on Sunday 26th February 18:47

[BliarOut]

STB usually is your connectivity on NTL Just plug in to the ethernet port and away you go. If you get the log in screen just enter your user details from when you first went on line with them.

So are you using a seperate cable modem? Odd.

[victormeldrew]

BliarOut said:

STB usually is your connectivity on NTL Just plug in to the ethernet port and away you go. If you get the log in screen just enter your user details from when you first went on line with them. So are you using a seperate cable modem? Odd.

Not really. I have a set top box in one room, and a cable modem upstairs, each connected separately. That's how it was installed.

[polus]

BliarOut said:

STB usually is your connectivity on NTL Just plug in to the ethernet port and away you go. If you get the log in screen just enter your user details from when you first went on line with them. So are you using a seperate cable modem? Odd.

I have a seperate cable modem aswell. No login screen or anything like that, they use the MAC address which I registered by ringing up.

If I remmeber rightly only about 25% of the set-top boxes have an ethernet port for use in this way (this was several years ago that I worked on PACE boxes). Obviously its cheaper to make them without the required hardware and takes less man hours on the firmware if they leave it off.

>> Edited by polus on Sunday 26th February 19:07

[Mikey G]

BliarOut said:

So are you using a seperate cable modem? Odd.

Not odd, most connections are now done with a seperate cable modem. Talking to the NTL tech that came to my house i was told that all new connections to BB wether you have an STB or not were done with a seperate modem as the STB's were fairly unreliable doing the 2 things at once.