Engineer required ?

I am due to get upgraded to vdsl for which an engineer appointment has been arranged in a couple of weeks in order to fit a standard vdsl faceplate.

However I have ordered a mk 2 openreach faceplate which I intend to fit myself.

Will my isp be likely still insist an engineer is required if I say I dont need a visit as I have already fitted my own filter.?

Edited by deleted (Sun 02-Feb-14 23:49:46)

Insist an engineer is required for what?

In reply to a post by bilbonvidia:

(The particular isp I am with will fit a standard non openreach one.)

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Are you sure? In fact, are you sure your ISP will fit anything?

In reply to a post by bilbonvidia:

I have ordered a mk 2 openreach faceplate which I intend to fit myself. Will my isp likely still insist an engineer is required?

(The particular isp I am with will fit a standard non openreach one.)

Regardless of anything else how exactly is your ISP supposed to know that you've fitted a faceplate yourself?

Your ISP won't care less whether you have fitted a mark 2 faceplate or the pope has blessed your NTE, they will follow their policies, whether they be self-install or an engineer visit to the property.

Edited by deleted (Sun 02-Feb-14 22:30:24)

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

In reply to a post by bilbonvidia:

I have ordered a mk 2 openreach faceplate which I intend to fit myself. Will my isp likely still insist an engineer is required?

(The particular isp I am with will fit a standard non openreach one.)

Regardless of anything else how exactly is your ISP supposed to know that you've fitted a faceplate yourself?

Your ISP won't care less whether you have fitted a mark 2 faceplate or the pope has blessed your NTE, they will follow their policies, whether they be self-install or an engineer visit to the property.

are you sure cos I've checked the Vatican Gift Shop and I can't find a Purple Papal Face Plate anywhere ?? (-

Post deleted by MrSaffron

[censored]!, I forgot to mention I had ordered vdsl for which an appointment has been made for an engineer to fit a vdsl face plate!

The question might make more sense now, I'll edit the 1st post.

If the ISP don't supply their own VDSL modems they'll order you an engineer install, end of.

If the ISP supply their own VDSL modems they still may order you an engineer install, end of.

They couldn't care less whether you have installed your own faceplate or have the flying spaghetti monster filtering your phone line, they have a process in place and they are extremely unlikely to manually override it and place a non-standard order for a single residential customer.

Thanks Dawkins
Alas you are right, I am just being impatient.

In reply to a post by bilbonvidia:

Thanks Dawkins
Alas you are right, I am just being impatient.

Sorry Sir, just doing that evidence based thing!

I remembered a discussion ....

In reply to a post by bilbonvidia:

I am with isp surecw

In the Isle of Man.

I gather from previous threads that you have a filtered faceplate at the moment. Is that correct?

If it is, you will need your original NTE5A faceplate or a new one. Your existing filtered faceplate will not fit into the Mk2 VDSL2 plate.

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 03-Feb-14 00:28:48)

Humour in poor taste deleted

The MK2 is now on, line stats seems the same, sync maybe very slightly lower.