[access-uk] Re: Microfilters etc.
- From: Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:54:28 +0100
Thanks for this, Colin.
In fact I only recently switched to broadband, and the ISP provided as part of
the package a
"free" single port router pre-configured. This allows me to have an ethernet
connection to my
main machine with the option of switching to the other one (in the same room)
if necessary,
but this was only ever intended as a short term arrangement. I am currently
trying to decide
which more sophisticated router I should purchase. This would of course
include wireless
capability as well as ethernet connections.
Having the router downstairs at the main telephone socket might be the best
option, but there
are two things which make me hesitate to go down that road. Firstly the
"geometry" of the
house - a long thin building in which the main socket and my office are as far
away from each
other as possible and with several intervening walls. I wonder whether this
might prevent me
getting a good wireless signal. Also my wife has a serious hearing problem and
I am a little
concerned that the wireless signal might interfere with her hearing aids, which
would be
disastrous!
Hence my preference for having a router on the extension point in my office and
using
ethernet connections. But I must accept that may not be compatible with
getting good
broadband speeds.
Douglas
On 26 Jul 2008 at 10:59, Colin Fowler wrote:
> Hi Douglas,
>
> Assuming we're referring to a wireless router. Are you able to plug the
> wireless router into the first telephone socket into your house, and
> recieve a wireless signal to your PC?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 10:53 AM
> Subject: [access-uk] Microfilters etc.
>
>
> > The recent thread on microfilters etc. has led me to wonder whether the
> > system I have here is entirely sound.
> >
> > I have a main BT socket downstairs and this has a microfilter plugged in
> > and is currently used only for a normal telephone receiver. From the
> > main socket BT engineers installed extensions (wired externally) to two
> > sockets in rooms upstairs. Both of these have microfilters plugged in.
> >
> > One extension is simply used for a further telephone receiver, but the
> > other (in my office) has connections to a phone and to my broadband
> > router.
> >
> > Is this set up sound? The reason I ask is that I seldom get broadband
> > speeds above 0.5 mb although the ISP says that the line should support 2
> > mb.
> >
> >
> > thanks in advance for any comments,
> >
>
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Douglas Harrison
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