Hi there just have a few things that I'd like to know regarding firstly my broadband account then my networking in the house. Please bear with me as I'm not really all that clued up on broadband and networking. Sorry in advance for the long post, I think it's better to give all the details.
Broadband:
We're currently with Nildram and have been getting increasingly frustrated with them and would like to move away from them as they've been having outages, are quite expensive etc. etc. The ISP we're going to move to is ADSL24 as I've seen it highly recommended around here and we'd be saving £7 per month. They are good right?
Now I have a few issues with our broadband.
Firstly, we're quite far away from the exchange, and so the max speeds that BT say we can get are 1mbit (the speed I am at now with Nildram) on both ADSLMax and fixed speed. I assume there is very little we can do to improve this at the moment
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Secondly, the wiring in our house is of poor quality. So when we got ADSL, must be 2.5 years ago now, our hardware could not hold a connection very well at all from most sockets in the house, and the connection from the socket in the study was very tempermental, disconnecting whenever someone switched on the lights in the bathroom, the room next to it.
To remedy this, we had a Bt engineer come over and install a new faceplate in the study that removed the need for microfilters. (It has a telephone socket and dsl socket on the faceplate) From what i remember, he said that it isolates the dsl signal in the house to that socket only and so enables us to get the service but did nothing for dsl in the rest of the house.
This was OK then, but now we wish to have better wireless coverage throughout the house, and so having the wireless router in the study is bad because it is the far end of the house. We wish to have access in all rooms ideally, but specifically in the room in the middle of the house, where my PC is at the moment. The BT woman on the end of the phone said that it would cost us £166 to get a new faceplate installed, but this still doesnt help with the rest of the telephone wiring in the house. Anyone an expert on this able to advise me on how best to improve the situation with wiring and dsl signals through them in the house?
Broadband:
We're currently with Nildram and have been getting increasingly frustrated with them and would like to move away from them as they've been having outages, are quite expensive etc. etc. The ISP we're going to move to is ADSL24 as I've seen it highly recommended around here and we'd be saving £7 per month. They are good right?
Now I have a few issues with our broadband.
Firstly, we're quite far away from the exchange, and so the max speeds that BT say we can get are 1mbit (the speed I am at now with Nildram) on both ADSLMax and fixed speed. I assume there is very little we can do to improve this at the moment
.Secondly, the wiring in our house is of poor quality. So when we got ADSL, must be 2.5 years ago now, our hardware could not hold a connection very well at all from most sockets in the house, and the connection from the socket in the study was very tempermental, disconnecting whenever someone switched on the lights in the bathroom, the room next to it.
To remedy this, we had a Bt engineer come over and install a new faceplate in the study that removed the need for microfilters. (It has a telephone socket and dsl socket on the faceplate) From what i remember, he said that it isolates the dsl signal in the house to that socket only and so enables us to get the service but did nothing for dsl in the rest of the house.
This was OK then, but now we wish to have better wireless coverage throughout the house, and so having the wireless router in the study is bad because it is the far end of the house. We wish to have access in all rooms ideally, but specifically in the room in the middle of the house, where my PC is at the moment. The BT woman on the end of the phone said that it would cost us £166 to get a new faceplate installed, but this still doesnt help with the rest of the telephone wiring in the house. Anyone an expert on this able to advise me on how best to improve the situation with wiring and dsl signals through them in the house?
What should I do with this? Buy a new wireless card? But it worked for ages in this PC on 32bit XP with encryption 