DS Forums

 
 

Installation of second telephone point.


Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 17-08-2006, 15:49
louise1966
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: workington, cumbria
Posts: 3,383

Has anyone got a rough idea what BT charge to fit a second 'phone line?

About £80 perhaps?

We are going to have to have one put in whatever the cost.

Thanks.
louise1966 is offline   Reply With Quote
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 17-08-2006, 17:01
timboy
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 26,381
Is is a 2nd line or an extension you want? Your title and first line contadict each other.

2nd line is £124.99, an extension is £110.46.
timboy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-08-2006, 19:55
Heinz
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: NE Essex,6½m SSW of Sudbury TX
Posts: 7,107
Any decent electrician would do the latter for £50 or less (my son would even conceal most of the wiring and sweep up after he'd finished).
Heinz is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2006, 11:39
louise1966
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: workington, cumbria
Posts: 3,383
Sorry about the confusion. We need to be able to plug our broadband connection in upstairs without having to use an extension. At the moment, our broadband is only plugged in when we want to use it.
louise1966 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2006, 12:32
timboy
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 26,381
In that case it is the extension option so £110.46 if you want a BT engineer to do it.

Personally I would go down the route Heinz mentioned or I would get a wireless router.
timboy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-08-2006, 16:00
JasonW
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Berwickshire (not Berkshire)
Posts: 738
I'd get a wireless router too and keep the cable length for the DSL in your house as short as possible.
JasonW is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 20-08-2006, 11:47
oscar12
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 496
Originally Posted by JasonW
I'd get a wireless router too and keep the cable length for the DSL in your house as short as possible.
hmm thats interesting..why is that?? i only ask because i have been asked by bt to check the d/l speed from my master socket downstairs and have been told to take off the plate and apparently there is another socket behind there i have had a bt extension from my front door where the line comes in to around the house up to my back bedroom which is now my office but i only get d/load speeds of 240kbps which is crap the distance i would think is about 8/10 metres of wire,will this have such an effect?? im only supposed to get 2mb max on my line even though bt let me sign up for adsl max
oscar12 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 20-08-2006, 15:30
MadMulla
Banned User
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Middle Earth.
Posts: 1,121
Originally Posted by oscar12
hmm thats interesting..why is that?? i only ask because i have been asked by bt to check the d/l speed from my master socket downstairs and have been told to take off the plate and apparently there is another socket behind there i have had a bt extension from my front door where the line comes in to around the house up to my back bedroom which is now my office but i only get d/load speeds of 240kbps which is crap the distance i would think is about 8/10 metres of wire,will this have such an effect?? im only supposed to get 2mb max on my line even though bt let me sign up for adsl max
Those last few metres can be enough to knock it over. It's often extenstion wiring that causes many problems.

Yes there will be a 'test' socket behind the faceplate if you have an NTE5 master socket (http://www.aurigaeurope.com/partners...es/nte5ext.jpg)
MadMulla is offline   Reply With Quote
 
Reply




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 10:36.