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antlists wrote: |
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> On 04/12/2020 01:40, Dale wrote: |
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>> Also, our local power company is about to start rolling out internet |
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>> service. It's done with fiber and the slowest package, 200MBs/sec, is |
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>> over 100 times faster than my current DSL. It only costs $4.00 a month |
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>> more than what I'm paying now. Their fastest package is 1GBs/sec. |
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>> Dang, I can't even imagine that sort of speed. Another good thing, same |
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>> speed BOTH ways. I can upload videos just as fast as I can download |
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>> one. Yeppie!! |
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>> My only thing now, I hope it works like DSL/cable/etc and just requires |
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>> me to plug in a ethernet cable. In other words, OS doesn't matter. I |
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>> suspect it does but we will see. |
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> We went to fibre recently. They put a new box on the wall which takes |
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> an RJ-45 instead of the previous situation where ADSL took an RJ-11. |
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> All the blurb says "works with BT Hub 6", which we already had, so I |
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> didn't bother getting a new router (you had to pay for the "latest and |
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> greatest" Hub 7). |
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> When the guy installed it - "where's you new router, it won't work |
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> with this one". No apparently you can't just plug it into any old |
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> network port, the router needs a dedicated WAN link and the Hub 6 came |
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> in two versions, one with an ADSL modem and one with a fibre uplink. |
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> So it sounds like you need to swap your ADSL router for a cable router |
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> or whatever it is, but apart from that you'll be fine. |
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> (And then some sales guy working on behalf of BT knocked on the door, |
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> was surprised to find we were already BT customers, and rigged up some |
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> deal that (a) threw in a Hub-7 free, (b) changed our calling plan to |
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> remove the one-hour limit and add free calls to mobiles, and (c) |
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> knocked about £2 off our monthly bill!!!) |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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I visited with my friend who recently got the same type of internet I'll |
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be getting. Odds are, the boxes will be the same. She has hers through |
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a power company and that's what I'm getting, just a different power |
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company. Anyway, as I suspected, it has a little box which is the |
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modem. It looks a lot like a old AT&T Westel modem. It's a little bit |
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smaller but other than that, almost identical. Then there is a bigger |
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box that is a router. I'm not sure of the brand but I don't think I've |
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ever seen one like that before. It includes wifi as well as the usual 4 |
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ethernet plugins. My friend only uses wifi. She has a TV, laptop and |
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cell phone. Me, I'm desktop so I'd have a ethernet plug for mine. Wifi |
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for my cell phone tho. Oh, printer too. I assume I can use my router. |
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It has a ethernet cable going from modem to router. Looks pretty simple |
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to me. If I can use my existing router, don't know why I can't, then it |
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should be as simple as unplug cable from router, plug into new modem |
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from power company and surf the internet, at blazingly fast speeds. |
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Whooooooossssshhh. |
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I have links to pics I took. One is modem and one is the router. |
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Anyone recognize the router? Anything special about it? |
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https://freeimage.host/i/KBNa6b |
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https://freeimage.host/i/KBNYMu |
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I hope that site doesn't annoy anyone. I upload there but rarely go |
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there for anything else. I need to have me a server thingy somewhere I |
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can upload to and keep things safe. With this new internet, it is |
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possible. It uploads and downloads at 200MB/sec. First backup may take |
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a while but after that, it wouldn't be bad. I wouldn't think of doing |
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that with current DSL tho. |
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I'm excited to see this coming. This is as good as when I went from |
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dial-up to DSL. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |