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Broadband
If I get broadband, will it run on my phoneline or does it run via satellite or soemthing else? I'm asking this because I don't have a phone socket in my bedroom, and thus to be connected to the internet (I'm on dialup) I have to use a cord that stretches from downstairs where the phone is connected to upstairs. Quite annoying. I've already signed up for broadband, and they're connecting it in a few days. However to get a phone socket in my room I have to pay 300 bucks and I don't have this kind of money! So can someone explain to me how broadband works? I'm hoping it won't mean I'll have tog et a phone socket.
Thanks.
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You would need a cable outlet in your room... but you could always do wireless. Get a wireless card for your computer, and set up a wireless router downstairs.
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While I am not sure what you are getting exactly, or through whom, it sounds like you are getting cable internet. All it is, really, is internet run on cable for higher bandwidth.
The $300 dollars for the phone jack on the second floor is either what it would cost to have someone "fish" a cable up a wall from the basement to the second floor (and thats a horrible pain), or there is an easier way - you can simply run a cable/line up the outside of your house and drill a hole from the outside, and stick it straight in.
This is what I've seen done for both phone and cable. Short of hiring an electrician and paying some $$$, no one wants to spends hours trying to run wiring inside a finished wall (the electricians dont either, and thats why they charge by the hour usually for that). I'm sure the installer has seen, and done, this before - you can just have him/her run it up the side of your house and in through a wall (unless they are completely lazy). Or you can do what you do for you phone and have it come in downstairs and run more cable/rg6 or cat5 upstairs. If you dont want a hole drilled willy-nilly in an upstairs wall from outside and you dont want to run wiring up the stairs again, you could have the internet installed downstairs, and get a wireless router.
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I have broadband and it doesn't affect my phoneline. If you sign on with it you don't need to have a phoneline for it.
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