Had Infinity 2 installed today at the rented cottage and this will really please Kin.
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Still have a nice low ping!
Download speed is a bit lower than at my other house, but not by much. And this is in rural West Sussex/Bosham down a country lane, surrounded by fields, with overhead phone lines connecting to the house at the top. I really wasn't expecting as good bandwidth. However I think the fibre cabinet must only be at the end of the lane on the main Emsworth to Chichester road, so only about a 1/4 mile at most.
I did have a bit of hassle with the engineer today though:
He arrived nice and early, just after 8am, which I prefer as you are not waiting all morning and wasting time. But, he wasn't an Open Reach engineer... a sub contractor! The Master Socket is strangely in the front bedroom window (because the phone-line enters the cottage from overhead at the front), but the room I'm using for my office is right at the back of the cottage in the newer extension. I explained to him that I needed the data line extension put though into that room. He instantly said he couldn't do it because he was only contracted to connect the FTTC and not run cables within the house (BS as a contractor did so at my own house last year, running a data (ethernet) cable from the master socket upstairs and into the office).
So anyway, he fitted the new filter to the master socket, then proceeded to test the line (but tried using our old number from our house and didn't know the new number that activated that morning). So after clearing that up be then went off to connect it up at the street cabinet. He came back and looked at my Hub 4 and asked where the black DSL cable was. I was a bit confued by that as I know it isn't needed, but said it was probably in its box back at the other house. So he took the cable from the fibre modem and plugged that into the router's DSL port.. Oh dear! I had to explain to him that it needed the Open Reach modem connected to the router's WAN port. He thought it was a Hub 5 with built in modem combined. Bloody Contractors!!! He was very reluctant to give me the new modem he had (I left the existing one back at the other house as BT tell you too, so I now have 2 and can now hack one to unlock it!
So he got the Infinity working and left. This meant we could use the WiFi but I didn't have it connected to the office or my computers. So I decided it had to either be powerline adapters or run an ethernet cable. I ruled out Powerline adapters because they are expensive, but also because the cottage is running a strange electrical setup with 2 consumer electric trip panels with one managing the older part and the other the newer extension, so I don't think they would work anyway. So instead I went to Novatech and grabbed 20M of Cat 6 cable and ran it from the modem in the front bedroom, through the cottage and into the office, and connected the Hub 4 to the other end. Works perfectly.
I did however encounter a WiFi issue, because the cottage has thick walls, is also quite spread out. The Hub 4's WiFi signal was really weak downstairs in the front room, probably due to the chimney blocking some of it, so I have utilised my Billion 7800N router. I disabled the ADSL modem in it by switching it into EWAN mode. Then switched off its DHCP server and set the router to a static IP on the Hub 4's range. Connected it up to the main network's switch and it works perfectly as a WiFi access point, and it has a much better signal than the Hub 4's, so it's all sorted. A bit of a complex home network, but it works well.