I may well have missed an email or two from AA, my ISP, and was waiting on BT or certainly thought I was. Anyway, Janet got an email saying
I don't think it will come down to excess charges, please see the updates below :-
*Pratiksha Shinde (14:10:57) They have provided the update as Spares found on CSS Divert may be possible. *
*Pratiksha Shinde (14:14:16) So I request you to check on 25/06/18 for an update on the order.IF the engineer provide any update till 25/06/18 that will be very helpful. *
So we should know a little more next week.
and later -
The order is still plodding along, cabling work is still required, it is moving
but taking a little longer than we'd hope
*Pooja Kiran Chavan (11:42:27) Mikey I could see the job is with contractors for cabling work and they have given the ECD is 25/07/18. *
I shall keep chasing and update you ASAP.
Then finally the other day another one saying that BT would be coming on the 8th of this month to install an additional copper line. Yippee. I didn't think that BT was going to go for it.
I wonder if BT had to do some actual work
around here before they could promise a date? - sounds a bit like it? Could it be possible that they needed to first check how many free copper pairs were good? Would probably have that information to hand already?
So -
The cost is £130 for installation. I can't remember what it was before, but £60 is the usual AA price for a copper pair install, I think. BT can perhaps just demand whatever they like, as they did before? Such is the joy of being an effective monopoly. Or perhaps Ofcom has got their bony grip on BT wrt this too. I am pleased that it is so cheap anyway, a relief. :-)
Then, iirc, per month: £12.20 for the copper, £12 for ADSL and an optional £12 for ‘premium’ traffic prioritisation. And I have no idea if there is VAT on top of that lot or not, doesn't say on the website, or if it does then I cannot see it. I hate it when you cannot see inc-VAT / exc-VAT in situ.
1. I have to get the small switch up and running which will be acting as a VLAN mux to connect all the modems into the Firebrick. It will be modems to small switch, then switch to Firebrick. This addition is needed because I will not have enough free ethernet sockets on the Firebrick. AA has the config for the small switch on their website, iirc. 2. I then have to do a config file for the modem itself. I have written a program in the iPad that can do that, generate the XML config for a ZyXEL modem. 3. And finally I must change the main Firebrick XML config to reflect the changes.
Anyway, next wed is the day. That means I need to buy some very nice biscuits for our BT man. Kettle will be on etc.
It is the second pair in the second drop cable.