Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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Does anyone have it?
We had the sky engineer out the other day for te TV install and he mentioned that there's 2 routers, one of which is screwed to the wall.
I'm keen to see what it looks like in people's houses as I don't know where to have it mounted so its hidden.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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It's got to be plugged into the master socket, so hiding it can be difficult depending on how your house is laid out:
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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Ah ok. The master socket is under the stairs but needs moving so ill have it moved to the living room I think.
Looks fairly neat anyway so that's cool.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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They're not too bad, the bridge is just a plain white box as you can see in the pic. I've had to run a home plug between the bridge and the router because my master socket is right by the front door - I had no where to put the router and as it's a fancy looking BT Home Hub I couldn't wall mount it. The downside of doing that is I can't run home plugs to anything else which needs it, but my place is quite small so everywhere gets WiFi.
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Dan
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Registered: 22nd Apr 02
Location: Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk
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I have the non wall mounted one. Its brilliant service, but im sure things like piratebay and kat.ph have all been blocked now on it.
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noshua
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Registered: 19th Nov 08
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Just google 'pirate bay mirror'
Ours is in the living room, master socket is next to some plugs anyway.
It's not wall mounted 
[Edited on 15-07-2013 by noshua]
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LeeM
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Registered: 26th Sep 05
Location: Liverpool
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didnt think it came through the phone line, or am i missing something?
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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It does come through the phone line.
It's Fibre To The Cabinet, which is the cabinet at the end of your street (roughly). After that it's still over a bit of old thin twisted pair copper.
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LeeM
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Registered: 26th Sep 05
Location: Liverpool
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oh right, seems a bit pointless if it bottlenecked coming into your house. or does it not have that much of an effect? wonder if i can get it, didnt even check because i thought it was like virgins cable internet
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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It can go much quicker over the last bit of copper, 80meg+ down, sure they've got a more recent one with double that.
Virgin is also FTTC but it's coax for the last bit and it doesn't use VDSL.
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
Location: London
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they have some FTTH but only really in new builds
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