FTTP & Phone line

[Fergieman]

Done a deal with BT Business for 150 meg and 2 lines VOIP. They are coming next Thursday to install it. Had the choice of 75, 150 or 300 meg with about £8 a month extra for each one. As we curretly have about 3 I thought 150 would be more than enough. They say a guarantee 135 meg as being the lowest we will get.

We are replacing 2 phone lines and 2 broadbands with the one fibre connection so monthly cost is less than we were paying.

I will have to set up a small home network to get the wifi signal is both the house and office. Running Cat5 cable is fine but what do I put at the end of the cable to create a wifi signal without a router? Probally looking at the new router and then 3 wifi boxes around the house. Can you get 3 wifi boxes with all the same setup/passwords so you can move seemlessly from one to another?


Edit - Wireless Access point is what I require, yes? If I have 3 of these can you set them up to have the same password/signal?

 

[upnortheast]

Sounds good. Bt have their discs (max 3 ) which create wifi signal with same login / password. They need a power supply. If they can "see" each other they will work. Otherwise need pluging into the network.
If you don`t use the BT discs look for "mesh" wifi

I use this
Cable Monkey supply 100 m rolls of cat5, differnet grades available
http://www.cablemonkey.co.uk/cat5e-...t5e-utp-external-cable-ldpe-outer-sheath.html
Look at Cat 6. Being higher spec

Neatest way is to terminate the cable in a wall socket
http://www.cablemonkey.co.uk/cat5e-modules-outlets/27-excel-cat5e-utp-rj45-loaded-faceplates.html
( just needs a punchdown tool)
http://www.cablemonkey.co.uk/tools/7890-ccs-krone-style-idc-punchdown-tool-5056045700424.html
Then a short patch lead at either end as necesary

 

[upnortheast]

If you need to plug a number of things ( PC / Printer / Wifi disc etc ) into one socket on your network you need something like this -

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Can get then with as many sockets as you like

Regarding Bt discs. in our case The Bt router sitting at the bottom of the stairs does the big farmhouse.
Cat 6 cable (through the sewer pipe )to my house - BT disc pluged into Ethernet switch does job.
Then by wireless bridge to cow office Ethernet switch- Bt disc in a D60 drum in the gable peak covers the shed
You can use an old router (Go into settings & turn off DHCP router - your main router does that stuff ) That will give you wifi & sockets to plug into. Downside is each one will have a seperate password. Not a major problem as you only need to log in your phone once then it will subsequently connect when it comes in range

 

[upnortheast]

We have now changed our phones away from the vintage BT copper lines to the VOIP fibre service,
At the recommendation of the local computer shop we used a company called Boxx Communication.
Help line in Milton Keynes staffed by some right canny folk
There is loads of choice out there , including BT.
Existing numbers were “ported “ to the new company. – just like changing a mobile phone provider
For 3 “lines “ & a line for the milking robot alarm service it is costing less than half what we were paying BT. with some snazzy new phones. as part of the deal
Huge advantage is the clarity, didn`t realise the BT service was so bad.
Now we can take the milk orders from the answerphone without having to play them 3 times to check we have heard correctly !
Awash with options for diverting calls to voicemail, mobile or another phone & other stuff we will probably never use Changeover was painless & so far very impressed.
Best to change near the end of an existing contract to avoid being charged an early release fee