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[TiltyShaun]

it's bloody amazing ..... what's that cost you a month .... presumably fibre

don't mind paying for that level of service, eh ?

£45 a month. Was spending more than that juggling BT and Vodafone.

Was quite happy when the cable went past the house!!

 

[V8Druid]

£45 a month. Was spending more than that juggling BT and Vodafone.

Was quite happy when the cable went past the house!!

I bet you were ....... BT were ripping me off for 42 quid and change, a month, before I binned them ... SSE is £19 a month line rental and 2 quid a month for the BB ... already shown this evening to be twice as fast as BT

 

[V8Druid]

many years ago the national grid were proposing BB down the leccy lines ... just about everyone has a leccy line .. IIRC BT got it 'quashed' ...

 

[TiltyShaun]

many years ago the national grid were proposing BB down the leccy lines ... just about everyone has a leccy line .. IIRC BT got it 'quashed' ...

I think the technology overtook them. We have tried the system at home and couldn’t get it to work properly. We wired the farmhouse in 2004 with Cat 5 cables and that is still better than the WiFi through the electric. Word in tech land is 5G will be the game changer......for those that get it!! In the last 2 years we have gone from poor internet and no phone signal to 300meg and 4g. Unless I need 5G for the remote Sany excavator that I don’t have yet then hopefully I am sorted!!

 

[Brendan]

I think the technology overtook them. We have tried the system at home and couldn’t get it to work properly. We wired the farmhouse in 2004 with Cat 5 cables and that is still better than the WiFi through the electric. Word in tech land is 5G will be the game changer......for those that get it!! In the last 2 years we have gone from poor internet and no phone signal to 300meg and 4g. Unless I need 5G for the remote Sany excavator that I don’t have yet then hopefully I am sorted!!

Looked into the powerline jobs, but wasn't sure if need to be on the same circuit for it to work properly whereas my office is Henleyed off the main, so just ran cat 5 to it

 

[Lancs Lad]

Looked into the powerline jobs, but wasn't sure if need to be on the same circuit for it to work properly whereas my office is Henleyed off the main, so just ran cat 5 to it

Power line can work surprisingly well...but needs to be on same phase, fine for domestic but pain for commercial, if you have the option just throw some cat6 cables in. Fast and cheap. Spent to many days of my life throwing internal networks in...

 

[Brendan]

Power line can work surprisingly well...but needs to be on same phase, fine for domestic but pain for commercial, if you have the option just throw some cat6 cables in. Fast and cheap. Spent to many days of my life throwing internal networks in...

So would they have worked in that situation?

 

[Lancs Lad]

So would they have worked in that situation?

Sorry just explain it further? If on same phase should be fine. Most work ok through different circuits etc.

 

[Brendan]

Feed comes into box outside then after the metre mine is split one way to the consumer unit of the house and the other to office fusebox

 

[V8Druid]

Feed comes into box outside then after the metre mine is split one way to the consumer unit of the house and the other to office fusebox

so is all connected to one circuit at the meter junction then

 

[Brendan]

so is all connected to one circuit at the meter junction then

Yes it just splits the feed after the metre although goes to an isolator switch before going to the office

 

[Lancs Lad]

Feed comes into box outside then after the metre mine is split one way to the consumer unit of the house and the other to office fusebox

I'd hazard a guess it would work, it's all one circuit in theory just split into different DBs, use latest type from dlink or someone. But they are aimed at domestic use really. I'd always chuck cat6 if at all possible. Doddle to do once you get your head round it if a tad fiddly, cheap end to end tester gives a sanity check.

 

[Brendan]

I'd hazard a guess it would work, it's all one circuit in theory just split into different DBs, use latest type from dlink or someone. But they are aimed at domestic use really. I'd always chuck cat6 if at all possible. Doddle to do once you get your head round it if a tad fiddly, cheap end to end tester gives a sanity check.

I just settled for cat 5 at the time, put a 25mm water pipe () in for the internet while was running the electric feed, then it has a small gigga switch thing in side to split it

 

[Jimoz]

What should you be doing to future proof newbuild with regard to data. I thinking putting cat 5 in to all boxes where coax is then a few strategic placed points additionally. Where would be recconended for these points? Doorbell, alarm perhaps one behind kitchen units. Do you just leave these all coming out in some service cupboard until 20 years later when we actually need them lol

 

[Lancs Lad]

What should you be doing to future proof newbuild with regard to data. I thinking putting cat 5 in to all boxes where coax is then a few strategic placed points additionally. Where would be recconended for these points? Doorbell, alarm perhaps one behind kitchen units. Do you just leave these all coming out in some service cupboard until 20 years later when we actually need them lol

If it was me....I'd run cat6 to anywhere you deffo going to use a pc like home office etc handy for printers etc. but more importantly I'd run it to likely CCTV points and any other connected kit...
Wouldn't worry to much about every socket, everything's on WiFi these days. It's more for other stuff.
Run them all back to a central point. Somewhere you can fit a little 9u cabinet. Out of the way...so not obvious to tealeaves.(they often go to CCTV cabinet these days and rip it out) hence mines tucked away up in corner of garage locked up.

 

[TiltyShaun]

What should you be doing to future proof newbuild with regard to data. I thinking putting cat 5 in to all boxes where coax is then a few strategic placed points additionally. Where would be recconended for these points? Doorbell, alarm perhaps one behind kitchen units. Do you just leave these all coming out in some service cupboard until 20 years later when we actually need them lol

The trouble with “future proof” is that someone is all ready working on out smarting the next generation of the future before the current future is obsolete. We have hard wired computer points back to a central network which we now hardly use as most of the stuff is WiFi.

 

[Brendan]

The trouble with “future proof” is that someone is all ready working on out smarting the next generation of the future before the current future is obsolete. We have hard wired computer points back to a central network which we now hardly use as most of the stuff is WiFi.

Hardwired connection is generally faster plus a lot more reliable.
Our virgin router I don't get signal out of the house, even walking couple of metres outside the front door when the router is barely 3m away from it. I live in a small house and it's the same down the side of the house or garden, my office/garden room is less than 15m and no signal in there. No matter what channels are used or what frequency it makes no difference, plus the further away the slower the speed

 

[fred]

full signal 4G is faster than home broadband. Problem is getting it.

 

[Cyberprog]

We pay £60 a month to A&A for FTTC - cabinet is right outside my front door. Full 80/20 here, but I'd love more! FTTP is available but costs mega bucks to install.

 

[V8Druid]

We pay £60 a month to A&A for FTTC - cabinet is right outside my front door. Full 80/20 here, but I'd love more! FTTP is available but costs mega bucks to install.

could you translate that for the luddite druid please Alex