Wiring up a BT socket for Broadband.

[Christian McArdle]

Nah. I put one in my kitchen in the last house. Very useful to have a phone in there, preferably of the speaker variety if you intend to continue to chop the veg.

Christian.

[Bob Eager]

Point taken...but for future reference they are fairly freely available 'on the High Street'.

[David Hearn]

In my situation it was simply because there was a small boxed in pipe running from the upstairs bedroom down to the kitchen. The 'office' is above the kitchen and it was really easy to just make up a plug->socket and run the cable down the hole and mount the socket under the worktop right next to the conservatory. Now I can plug in the laptop and get broadband without having to go wireless, without the 15m extension lead I used to use, and without any major work (except about 45 minutes trying to get the wire down the hole!). Ideally the socket would have gone in the living room - however its the next best thing for the least work.

David

[PoP]

....or do the washing up as SWMBO dictates :)

PoP

[Richard Savage]

Possibly not entirely true if my experience is anything to go by: phone line was broken by tree root - result no voice line but Broadband fine.

Or fit a single splitter box in place of your BT Master box where the phone line enters the house and run a dedicated BB line from that point. Much neater than microfilters wherever you need a voice line. They're about £10.

Rgds Richard

[geoff]

Cocktail sticks work well in an emergency

[geoff]

You obviously don't understand women and online recipes

[geoff]

In message , PoP writes

Washing up ?

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean there

[geoff]

Doh ... A bathroom is another name for a brewery

[Dave Liquorice]

Or the net connected fridge that orders your groceries for you.

[Lurch]

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 20:14:06 +0000, in uk.d-i-y Richard Savage strung together this:

I no know how but ADSL will work with only one wire connected. ..

SJW A.C.S. Ltd.

[chris French]

In message , Bob Eager writes

I too have used the screwdriver technique on a couple of occasions - I did have one of the cheapy plastic tools, but it didn't work very well anyway, the screwdriver was much better, it was about 8 pm on Sunday night, etc. etc. sometimes needs must.

That does not mean that I don't think using the right tool for the job is a more sensible course of action.

[Alistair Riddell]

Phantom / capacitive earth?

A radio will work with no wires connected - surely one wire connected must be easier make work than none!

[Christian McArdle]

Nah. I have no intention of ever living without a dishwasher.

Christian.