Might have to get BT line for adsl.........please look in.

Gavin

Gavin

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Ive never had dsl at my current address and am with VM but increasingly it looks like ill have to go with one of slys packages and as such will need a bt phone i believe?

This property used to have a BT phone line and has a wire outside the door that has been cut by decorators.

Heres a few pictures can anyone advise me if i just wire up a new box will it work ok ? Or at least guess?

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6259/bt4t.jpg
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/4016/bt3.jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4738/bt2c.jpg
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2472/bt1x.jpg

as you can see thats what i have outside my house and several others seem to link off it as well. Might be because i have a bt man hole in my front garden.
 
no but i can soon take the front off that box and wire a new one.

Yeah yeah i know im not supposed to but then i have there man hold cover in my garden so they owe me lol:D

What im hoping for is i might be able to get a live link off it so i dont have to pay any installation.
 
the box you buy for in the house will tell you which wires go where think theres only 2 go to be connected
 
Why bother doing it yourself? If you've never had a BT line in that house and the wire's been cut for a long time then it's almost certainly going to be a physically disconnected line (in the cab) so BT will charge you full price for installation (£125 unless you get some sort of discount).

Since you're almost certainly going to pay full price regardless you might as well just let the BT engineer sort it all out when they visit.
 
but surely i as may as well try for the sake of some wire and a box? i could save £100 odd quid?

Cant see your logic in being so negative.
 
Completely pointless, even if you do reconnect it, it will be dead, BT didn't come down in the last shower you know.
 
The installation engineer will turn up, take the old wire off, and run a new one from that grey box into the house where you want the master socket.

The grey box is BT's property. If you open that up to install your own cable, they reserve the right not to connect you (very unlikely, but may happen).

Phemo is correct in this matter.
 
Right there has been a BT into the house obviously by the wire the wire has been cut. I dont know how long its been like that for.

I was meaning to connect a box up to it and then ring them to see about connection. If they can do it remotely then there is no charge. Thus saving a bit of money or have i missed something.

PiKe said:
Completely pointless, even if you do reconnect it, it will be dead, BT didn't come down in the last shower you know.
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I knew it would be dead. What did you think i was going to get free calls:D
 
You can get free reconnection so long as you sign up to 18 month contract or similar.

They will do whatever is required to reconnect you.
 
Oh wait, he meant Sky, Sky will pay your reconnection fee for you and arrange it etc.
 
I got free connection by agreeing to 18-months, it isn't even that long really, i'm 12 months into it nearly now and changing adress doesn't count as a new contract you're just 'moving'
 
Gavin said:
but surely i as may as well try for the sake of some wire and a box? i could save £100 odd quid?

Cant see your logic in being so negative.
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I'm not being negative at all, it's the way BT are. If the line hasn't been used for a year or so then the line will need a reconnection which means BT will charge. Even if you had a perfectly intact wire into your house and a socket on the wall (so theoretically no engineer needed at all) you would still have to pay £125 (not including any offers of course).

It is free as long as the line is still physically connected up in the cabinet. If it's been unused for a while then it's very very unlikely to still be hooked up. Up to you if you want to try it but I bet it's not physically connected ;) If you really feel like going that route (and I'd strongly advise against opening up BT's property) then just hook up a socket on a short piece of wire first to save you routing wire for no reason. If you still have a dialtone then your line is still connected; if there's no dialtone you'll have to pay.
 
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groen said:
bt don't charge £125 to just turn on the wire, they only charge installation if they have to run a wire from outside.
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Having said that AAISP got a new line installed (physically new cable from the pole into my study) last month and all we got charged was £10 or something as BT put it through as a stop/start :)

I did have a cable coming into the house, but it was certainly not connected in the last 5 years.
 
Gavin said:
exactly what they told me as well hence why i was confused as to some of the answers.
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They will charge you if the line has been disconnected for a certain period of time (IIRC this is set at 6 months now).

That is irrespective of whether they have to physically install a new cable or just reconnect it at the cab / exchange.

I just got lucky this time, I've moved house 4 times in the last 5 years and every other time I have had to pay the £125 to get a line installed.

You can sometimes get around this by taking a line out on an 18 month contract, or some people like The Post Office will sometimes pay the installation fees for you.
 
groen said:
bt don't charge £125 to just turn on the wire, they only charge installation if they have to run a wire from outside.
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Not at all true.

I've been charged the full amount even when i've had a dial tone (i didn't pay it in the end because i kicked up a fuss).

The second time, i had the line physically installed, but it had been disconnected at the cab. (I didn't pay it then either as i signed up for 18 months - no VM in this area so it was either that or dongles).
 
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