Today's the Day For The FTTC Installation

Today is the big day for the FTTC installation from 1pm keeping my fingers crossed that they turn up.

Preparations I have made.

Biscuits bought and stored in the tin.

Fresh Coffee/Tea Ready to be brewed and poured.

New Buffalo Router WHR-G300NV2-EU unpacked and ready to go ( Dam that thing is so tiny )

Moved furniture so Engineer can move the faceplate to next to the PC.

Tried to keep my excitement in check Working slightly at the moment

Clock watching

Steve

Hope it goes ok..

It's so strange I remember when I was waiting for my install nearly a year a go now.. eeek (Time flies) and I was the same. It's almost like being a child again waiting for Christmas.

It wears off of course .. well just becomes the norm I guess

It also becomes hard when Im at my parents who have 20Mb connection with Virgin and it just seems so slow.

Sounds like you have covered all the bases. Is your main phone socket in the correct location of where you want the router and modem to be? Mine was in the hall way, so I anticipated where my data extension kit should be routed and prepared some trunking or conduit accordingly.

In reply to a post by JLamy:

Sounds like you have covered all the bases. Is your main phone socket in the correct location of where you want the router and modem to be? Mine was in the hall way, so I anticipated where my data extension kit should be routed and prepared some trunking or conduit accordingly.

Nope socket is in the hallway, but I am hoping the Engineer will move it to a a spot next to the PC in my lounge. Pointless having the Modem in the hall.

Update BT just called can they come a bit earlier than planned ? About 10:30 Hmm no brainer Yessssss

HA HA

The wait continues.

Steve

Have they arrived yet?

In reply to a post by Pgre:

Hope it goes ok..

It's so strange I remember when I was waiting for my install nearly a year a go now.. eeek (Time flies) and I was the same. It's almost like being a child again waiting for Christmas.

It wears off of course .. well just becomes the norm I guess

It also becomes hard when Im at my parents who have 20Mb connection with Virgin and it just seems so slow.

It seems like only yesterday when I was living in Hamburg, Germany and was a then member of the underground group the CCH Computer Chaos Club.

We were all using 300 BPS modems and then it went up to a blistering 1200 BPS and they cost an arm and a leg back then to chat to each other on our bulletin boards. How far we have come already since those days. Kids would never believe it if I told them that was what we had to use back then and then later for the internet too. How excited were we with the prospect of a 56K Modem ???? OMG

HA HA

Steve

In reply to a post by woooshuk:

Have they arrived yet?

No, still plodding along with O2 at the moment. Waiting patiently though


Steve

Here goes now being disconnected

Never thought I would be happy to hear that from an Engineer.


Steve

Ok all done and dusted, didn't move the faceplate but ran a data extension kit and all nicely tacked again the wall to the new little box, very nice chap too only wated tea and no biscuits.

Right here are the first results so far

Ping Test

http://www.pingtest.net/result/37516602.png

Speed Test

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1217997946.png

And here the TBB test results

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/13009...

Steve

Edited by stevepressman (Thu 24-Mar-11 12:25:41)

Looks good

What about a BT speedtest?