Bonded ADSL Part 5 - I now have a second line :-)

As you will have gathered from the post title, the second line has now been successfully installed by BTO - it's been about 6 months coming, but glad we finally got there. Not sure really why it's taken so long, but the engineer that called round did say that there had been a number of poles and cables replaced recently in my area, and that additional cabling was required to provide enough pairs to my property to give me the second line.

Once the engineer got here, the install was painless. I've been given another of the nest Master Sockets that has a built in filter for ADSL, so no need for a trailing micro filter. The new master socket has been installed in my hallway next to the original one. Initial tests by BTO on the line were rurally good, with the sync rate sitting at around 7000kbps.

In order to get the line operating (before getting Sharedband installed) I hooked up the ADSL line to an Asus DSL-N55U modem router. It performs reasonably well, but finding that sync rate and SNR down are pretty variable right now - probably because the line is still settling out.

Next task is to get Sharedband installed and see how I get on. The equipment has arrived and I'll do another post shortly to log how I get on.

The 2 master sockets in place

The hall 'IT' cupboard mid install

As you can see from the above photo, the Sharedband gear is ready to be installed - I've even got a couple of new modems to try and ensure the system is as fast and stable as it can be (Billion 7800's).