Bloody Thunder and Lightening

[Andy_con]

Bloody Thunder and Lightening blew my home phone, modem and wireless home hub.

I heard the home hub pop and it smelt of burning, BT are useless you get to speak to a man in india.

got some crappy home phone and my land line works, got a new modem but no internet.

how fooking annoying

 

[Rob]

That's proper weird. I've literally just been out in the back garden mowing the lawn, could hear next door giving someone an earful on the phone. The same thing happened to theirs. Missed me though, boss.

 

[Andy_con]

right pain as im suppose to be working from home today, am currently round parents

 

[Goodj]

Worst first world issue since Cookie only had ADSL switched on

 

[1812lsd]

Surge protection ftw.

 

[Keydogg]

Surge protection ftw.

Funny you should say that. Last June we had a lightening strike 100 yards down the road from work and it blew up £8,000 of kit that was all on surge protectors, they didn't stand a chance!

 

[Knuckles]

If they say they 'don't cover act of god', can you say 'shove it up your arse as I don't believe In god'?

 

[Dan...]

Lol^

 

[DannyR]

Dad got struck last year, directly on the BT pole outside his house. His router had blown with black bits on it and the next three houses down the line had the same thing!

I remember the good old days of having to remove the aerial feed from the one TV in the house in case it got struck!

 

[Andy_con]

Took an hours and being transfered to four different departments to get new equipment sent out

 

[Andy_con]

Can any offer any advice?

My setup was white BT umm modem i think and BT home hub 3.

As I'm on infinity BT have said I need their modem not any old modem

What does the white modem that goes with the home hub 3 dish out? It has a lan port on the back which you plug into the home hub.

I've got a friends white box/modem could I plug this into any wireless router and get working Internet?

 

[Timmsy]

Can any offer any advice?

My setup was white BT umm modem i think and BT home hub 3.

As I'm on infinity BT have said I need their modem not any old modem

What does the white modem that goes with the home hub 3 dish out? It has a lan port on the back which you plug into the home hub.

I've got a friends white box/modem could I plug this into any wireless router and get working Internet?

Yes you can do that, so long as you have the white openreach modem then you 'can' plug any router into it to get it up and running, Baring im mind you will need your FTTC circuit log in details from BT. usually something like username - 'someone@btinternet.com Password - 12345678 or something random. this is so the router logs into BT's Radius server.

BT say you have to use theres as it comes with this already entered but you can request the details from them, ive done it with my BT FTTC

 

[Andy_con]

Ah I see, so I need to log into the tplink wireless router and put my details in?

 

[Andy_con]

I'm logged into my tplink wireless router now where do I find these settings?

 

[.Stevo.C.]

Lightning......just saying.

Surge protection isn't a 100% guaruntee to protect from a strike.

I fit lightning conductors for a living and even they don't fully protect a building from damage.