Posts Tagged ‘broadband’
Zen Internet broadband cancellation
At the end of May I wanted to cancel my broadband from Zen Internet because I was going on a long holiday to Japan. I’d worked out that despite Zen’s activation fee to re-connect, it would still be cheaper to cancel now and re-connect later, rather than keeping the connection while I was away. Cancellation request Zen have always been a [...]
Fitting an ADSL faceplate to your BT line box
I’m going to talk about how to fit an NTE5 compatible ADSL filtered faceplate to your BT master socket. This will allow you to plug your broadband modem router directly into the BT master line box, rather than having to use an ADSL micro filter. Broadband reliability problems I’ve previously written about some of my broadband problem [...]
ADSL signal to noise ratio and line attenuation chart
Whilst trying to diagnose my broadband connection problems I found many articles telling me to look at my modems values for signal to noise ratio and line attenuation values. The articles would then give big and complicated descriptions talking about distance to exchanges, DSLAMS, frequencies and all kinds of other things which I’d classify as [...]
