In reply to a
post by Anonymous:
u need to buy a cable router netgear has they ues netgear for the there broadband why dont u get fibder broadband the speeds are lot faster up to 80 mb
This anonymous thing is confusing, Are you both the same person?
Thanks for the reply/replies.
i did think about Fibre, but Bt seems to be dragging their behind around here and so far nothing seems to have been done.
i don't really need 80Mb/s or 40 for that matter and to be honest that thought of getting away from Bt network pleases me.
As for the router, I can use any cable router I want to, but they will not support it, in other words if I have a problem with the settings in my router I will have to sort it out myself as they only support Belkin or Netgear,.
Fair enough, other ISps willl only support the equipment they give out and i did not use what they give me anyway, prefer to use my own, and for the last 2 years I have been on my own router wise apart from forums like this one.
I am just under a mile from the access point which is on the cathedral, so if all goes wel i should get a pretty decent signal. i am starting at 5 megabits and then after a couple of months I will up to 10 if I need to.
As i said before, I am not too bothered about high speed as long as I can get done what I want to get done.
I did ask before, I will try again

, do they use PPoE for connection?
Adrian
Desktop machine now powered by windows 7 pro 64bit , laptop by ubuntu
On ADSL24 using C&W network.