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[kitz]

Good luck for tomorrow 7LM 

[roseway]

Good luck from me too

[sevenlayermuddle]

Thanks for the thoughts.

Not sure what to expect, they'll have a play at the cabinet, supply and install a modem, I'll configure my Billion router for pppoe, connect it's WAN port to the modem and, hopefully, that'll be that?

I don't think I'll be able to post detailed stats from above setup (?) but will try to report as much info as I have.   

Oh, and it'll be Jaffa cakes and chocolate digestives rather than bacon sandwiches, hope that'll suffice.   

[sevenlayermuddle]

Tension mounts.   

It's 8:01, (or was when I started typing), which is early for me, I'm up and dressed and poised over the Billion's GUI, just in case the engineer arrives on the dot....

Wonder how many more coffees I'll get through before the doorbell actually rings...?   He has until 13:00... 

[roseway]

It's like waiting for a parcel to arrive, isn't it?

[sevenlayermuddle]

Hardest thing is resisting the temptation to start eating the Jaffa cakes 

[kitz]

afaik - but it could depend on contractor - they will ring you to advise they are at the cab and your broadband will be going down.
It should only take them 5 mins to change the wires at the PCP and then he'll head to your home.

[sevenlayermuddle]

The chap I saw working last week, which inspired this thread, was definitely Openreach.   Here's hoping, then... 

But still waiting.   And carrying the house phone around the house with me now, per Kitz's advice.   

[Black Sheep]

'Oh, and it'll be Jaffa cakes and chocolate digestives rather than bacon sandwiches, hope that'll suffice'

Hmm ? Borederline is that, 7LM ?? 

[sevenlayermuddle]

'Oh, and it'll be Jaffa cakes and chocolate digestives rather than bacon sandwiches, hope that'll suffice'

Hmm ? Borederline is that, 7LM ?? 

Even more borderline if they've all been eaten.   I have visitors from across the Atlantic at the moment, still in bed sleeping off the jet lag.  But once they surface I may have a struggle on my hands to preserve supplies... 

[Black Sheep]

Tough decision ................ lifetime friends, or a VDSL connection

I think we know where this is going, and it is only seven and a half hours back to the USA's eastern seaboard. 

[burakkucat]

. . . and it is only seven and a half hours back to the USA's eastern seaboard. 

Eh?    It's only five hours difference between The Cattery, BSE and my friend in NY, NY & also a colleague in Madison, NJ, USofA.

[sevenlayermuddle]

All working well.   

A pleasant Mr Kelly installed an ECI modem and, with minimum of fuss, convinced me the DSL lamp was on, and the phones still worked too.

Frustratingly, I failed to manually amend the 7800DXL configuration to use pppoe and WAN port.   But having admitted defeat, swallowed my pride, and let the 'quick start' wizard do it for me, all went well.   

I have of course no access to stats, but speedtest.net indicates download of circa 44 Mbps, upload 10Mbps, which ain't bad for 550metres from cabinet.   As mentioned earlier I am entertaining guests for the next few days, so will just leave all to one side now.   The options for getting stats will be explored later next week.

[burakkucat]

I have of course no access to stats, but speedtest.net indicates download of circa 44 Mbps, upload 10Mbps, which ain't bad for 550metres from cabinet.

Yes, that looks a reasonable throughput for the distance involved.

[tickmike]

Well done  .