[UK-CONTEST] It's a conspiracy

[Dave Sergeant]

On 28 Sep 2006 at 10:00, Adrian Rees wrote:

> I have been a BT ADSL User since the first days of ADSL in the UK. I admit that I use the BT SOHO (Small Office Home
> Office) service as it offers better user Contention Ratios and 24 x 7 Support, no blocked ports, and a generally RAW
> Internet connection. I recently moved house, to the Hills of North Wales, and had to cancel my ADSL Subscription and
> re-apply. I subscribe to the BT SOHO Service from my new location and have the following comments to make:

Adrian is talking about BT Business broadband. Chris is on the 
domestic BTYahoo service so much of what he says is not relevant. I 
assume also he is talking about the original business routers which 
are somewhat different kettles of fish from the current BT Total 
offerings. With these you can do all the settings via its ethernet 
web interface and do not need to do anything via the usb port at all.

>The change of faceplate on your master socket is something easily 
>done yourself - and well worth doing, as it takes your internal 
>extension wiring out of the picture.

Only if you have a new style master socket (with an unscrewable 
bottom half section). Many of us still have the old style socket. In 
fact the BT chap replaced mine with an equivalent old style master 
while sorting out a problem and kindly re-wired my unofficial 
extension wiring into it... A standard question from the Indian 
'support' - expletive deleted - people is to plug your router into 
the test socket. All us with old style sockets have no such thing...

73 Dave G3YMC


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