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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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)