Hi all
I think I'm going to take the plunge with Zen's Fibre Active package. I've
done a lot of reading but I can't find anywhere answers to my key questions
- grateful if anyone can fill in the gaps:
1) Starting at the socket, the Openreach engineer is apparently going to
swap my faceplate. So what sockets will there be on the new faceplate?
I've seen images but can't tell if one's now ethernet and the other a
standard phone jack or if they're two phone jacks (presumably one voice, one
data?)
2) The engineer is going to install (I assume this means plug in and go no
further) a VDSL modem. Let's assume for the moment (see below) I don't buy
any new equipment. Can I just connect this new VDSL modem to a PC (and if
so are we talking ethernet or USB?) and have it connect via DHCP? This is
exactly what happened when I got my first cablemodem before I added a
router. The reason I ask this is that, with no router in the mix, there
would have to be a seriously configured software firewall on the PC wouldn't
there? To connect to the net without NAT is quite risky isn't it?
Certainly it used to be!
3) Zen want to sell me an appropriate router (which is understandable) but I
do (somewhere!) have my old cable router i.e. the one I used to attach to my
Virgin cable modem at my old house - I'm assuming I could use this couldn't
I?
4) My Sky box needs the phone line and at present it's connected to an
extension of this line via a standard ADSL microfilter - any issues here?
5) A ten fold speed increase for just over a fiver more than I'm currently
paying per month (and Zen have been excellent IMHO) sounds a good deal -
does anyone have any reservations about VDSL?
Cheers
Rob
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