tech help please - broadband - adsl filter?
I have bt home hub, wireless connection.
couple of days ago brief power cut, power back on, all lights on homehub went red. Settled down started working
then, it keeps messing about dropping out, flashing orange etc
I reset factory defaults, reset connection on laptop same problem, glows blue till I connect then flashes orange, settles orange, goes blue, connects, drops out and repeats.
until I unplug the phone, then it seems to work
I guess I need a new splitter doo-dah / adsl filter? where the phone and broadband connect together to the phone socket. we have no other phones.
if so, which one do I buy and how much?
looked on PCWorld - don't want to be robbed blind, they have two, one is a tenner one is nearer twenty five!
It's just a little plastic socket. Which one do I need, and where is cheapest? Preferrably a real shop like Argos or Maplins, I don't like buying online anymore.,
thanks :)
couple of days ago brief power cut, power back on, all lights on homehub went red. Settled down started working
then, it keeps messing about dropping out, flashing orange etc
I reset factory defaults, reset connection on laptop same problem, glows blue till I connect then flashes orange, settles orange, goes blue, connects, drops out and repeats.
until I unplug the phone, then it seems to work
I guess I need a new splitter doo-dah / adsl filter? where the phone and broadband connect together to the phone socket. we have no other phones.
if so, which one do I buy and how much?
looked on PCWorld - don't want to be robbed blind, they have two, one is a tenner one is nearer twenty five!
It's just a little plastic socket. Which one do I need, and where is cheapest? Preferrably a real shop like Argos or Maplins, I don't like buying online anymore.,
thanks :)
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Why don't you like buying online any more? For this sort of thing, it's exactly the place I'd be looking!
Ebuyer - ?3.67 with supersaver delivery (5 working days)
if your in a hurry for one, then yer you'll have to go shop
ebuyer is great / wait isn't.. and if they charge silly money for the item... unless you order a lot :)
go ebay.. there are loads on there. ?2-3 is really all they should cost but.
pc world price = your paying for their electric + rent ;)
or try freecycle and gumtree.
if everyone had a power cut? I'd bill the electric company for the new item tbh
I don't like mail order, waiting for things to be delivered, getting things delivered, and I don't have any credit cards anymore (well, I have one), and I've closed my paypal account and I am going to close my ebay account, and I prefer to physically see what I am buying and leave the store with it.
I kinda get what you mean with some things. I would never order food online to be delivered to my house. Clothes again I want to see and try out before purchasing.
But when it comes to component parts (PC hardware, cabling etc...) I don't really need to see it to buy it. If I want a 20ft patch ethernet cable, I know what it is and I don't need to see it before buying it. When I build a PC, I know what bits I want but I don't need to look at them in a store beforehand. therefore I know I can get a much better price online than in a shop.
In the case of an ADSL filter, there may be different looking ones but they are all designed to do the same thing. Do I need to physically 'see' the item? Not really, as long as it works then it doesn't matter. So I have a choice. I can spend ?10+ on one from a shop, or get one online that does the same job for less than half the price, at the expense of waiting a few more days. I am a patient man, I'd rather wait and save that money for other things.
The high street retail industry is dying. I should know, I was made redundant from one in February, and even before then it was quite obvious that the internet is the way forward for a majority of shopping now.
I've been messed about too much, been sent the wrong items, not had the items sent. In the case of play.com after ordering with express delivery, came home to find no xbox, and an e-mail requesting I phone them and confirm the order ffs
I just get messed about and I don't like it.
If I want a part for a motorbike, I will order it from a bike shop and check that it is the right one in the shop before I leave.
I mail ordered a downsized back cog for faster launches once, and got a standard sized cog in the post. Much delay caused.
not only that, but I don't trust delivery companies, if things don't fit through the letter box then you are at the mercy of the delivery driver as to what happens next
throw it in a puddle, throw it in the river, give it to the drug dealers 3 doors down who will deny all knoweldge, lob it over the gate, over the fence, leave a card and take it to a depot in a town you've never heard of and then employ some ninjas to come and deliver another card when you are in, claiming that you were out - on a different day to the one you arranged, or if you are very lucky it might fit through the letter box, or they may take notice of the alternative instructions on the lable.
See www.rwapservices.co.uk/filters.html
Unfortunately, I am not just down the road from Bedford!
www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
www.sellmyretro.com
you pass it on the way to VCF ? or it's just after hehe
I forgot to look in tesco earlier , but I'm sure they do a value one that is like ?3-5
I have one anti surge multi socket, I think that my phone (cordless) and homehub should connect to that..... instead of my xbox.