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Old 07-05-2011, 12:17   #3
windbag
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Loughborough-UK Midlands
Services: Virgin 10M Broadband
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Re: Moving ISP in old house-routing issue?

Thanks for the reply, jb66.

I'm going for phone/10Mb broadband only.
Yeah, I thought they'd "junk" the existing cabling and go for a completely new connection point.

The more I think about it, the better it would be if they can drill a hole in the wall to get to the "under the bottom few stairs" box cavity in the hallway. I can remove the vertical end of the box, and they could install the splitter right there on the replaced end panel. That would mean a 2m run to connect to the existing main Dect Phone, and be in exactly the right place for an under-stairs hub.

The only issue that might give that grief is the run from the pavement, and where they can exit their roadside conduit. Can they enter the front boundary of the property at any point, or are there constraints ? (we have a large stone wall blocking all but the gated access). If they can, then instead of a 5m "straight run", they'd need to put in a "skirt around the paving edge" run of, maybe 8-10m.

Would that be an issue?

I'll ask a q re NAS/hub setup in another thread.
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