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Greetings... I have had a very quick flit around page one of the forum and didn't see my concerns addressed, and I'm sure they will have been already covered, so my apologies in advance for asking.
I have just exercised Option 3 with BT Broadband because my last two ISP's have presented frequent disconnections and both ironically ended up blaming BT's lines - but neither could resolve these problems and BT themselves only wanted £135 to come and look, which means BT Broadband is the only thing to 'get in' since BT will be responsible for the signal, line and equipment, and hopefully cannot blame a third party if anything fails...
So here I am with a freshly installed hardwired 5e category home network and no wishes to actually install the BT wireless hub and VOiP phone handset - and sitting on the shelf I've got both a ZyXel 645 router and a ZyXel 792 unit... but how easy is connecting either of them to the BT line going to be?
I called BT the other day, twice, and they promised to let me know, twice... but of course they didn't bother - and it takes ages to even get to speak with a real person, so I gave up and thought I'd bring the question along to a few hardened forum boffins who might just be able to cast a little more light on matters for me...
So if anyone can help me out I'd be both very impressed and mightily grateful, I know my PC inside out... but am rather new to the whole ethernet side of things!
Oh, and it's XP Pro if it needs mentioning
I have just exercised Option 3 with BT Broadband because my last two ISP's have presented frequent disconnections and both ironically ended up blaming BT's lines - but neither could resolve these problems and BT themselves only wanted £135 to come and look, which means BT Broadband is the only thing to 'get in' since BT will be responsible for the signal, line and equipment, and hopefully cannot blame a third party if anything fails...
So here I am with a freshly installed hardwired 5e category home network and no wishes to actually install the BT wireless hub and VOiP phone handset - and sitting on the shelf I've got both a ZyXel 645 router and a ZyXel 792 unit... but how easy is connecting either of them to the BT line going to be?
I called BT the other day, twice, and they promised to let me know, twice... but of course they didn't bother - and it takes ages to even get to speak with a real person, so I gave up and thought I'd bring the question along to a few hardened forum boffins who might just be able to cast a little more light on matters for me...
So if anyone can help me out I'd be both very impressed and mightily grateful, I know my PC inside out... but am rather new to the whole ethernet side of things!
Oh, and it's XP Pro if it needs mentioning























