Can i use my router at another property.

daz69kay

Hi there. I have the internet at my current address but i stay at a different address every so often. I remember a while ago when i had AOL i installed the CD at a different property without notifying AOL and it worked fine.

I have just installed my wireless router at a different address than mine which the broadband is registered. I have tried to connect to the internet but it wont connect. The desktop says signal strength : excellent. The error message says that ther might be no DSL signal ? But i did have the telephone unplugged ?? Will it eventually work at a different address ?

Thank you

sco0ter

Broadband is provided at a set address.. It is not available on any line only the one you registered it at.. Its not like dialup. only way to get it to work would be cancel your own and join up at new address or join again and pay for 2 subscriptions

Greensprout

sco0ter wrote: »

Broadband is provided at a set address.. It is not available on any line only the one you registered it at.. Its not like dialup. only way to get it to work would be cancel your own and join up at new address or join again and pay for 2 subscriptions

Not exactly true.. When I moved out of my mum and dads house and got my own place I thought I'd plug in my broadband router and try dialling up.. Entered the username and password and it connected

I've now got my own contract at my house but it worked a treat for a month or so..

daz69kay

i had AOL on that other address for 3 months but i actually moved back to my own house. I will keep playing about with it and see. It'd be great to hear from people who have done that and its worked :j Thanks

sco0ter

Greensprout wrote: »

Not exactly true.. When I moved out of my mum and dads house and got my own place I thought I'd plug in my broadband router and try dialling up.. Entered the username and password and it connected

I've now got my own contract at my house but it worked a treat for a month or so..

Then the only explanation for that is it must have already got AOL installed there... Broadband requires activation and connection at the exchange. it is not a plug and play media... If a service is on your line then you cant connect to a different one otherwise you would not need a MAC when you wanted to move or go through the hassle of downtime when changing suppliers

superscaper

sco0ter wrote: »

Then the only explanation for that is it must have already got AOL installed there... Broadband requires activation and connection at the exchange.

Exactly it is the phone line that is associated with the account. Sounds like by coincidence that the other property was also activated for AOL. But ADSL isn't a roaming technology. If it was then you wouldn't have to go through the migratory procedure nonsense simply to change ISP.

Greensprout

sco0ter wrote: »

Then the only explanation for that is it must have already got AOL installed there... Broadband requires activation and connection at the exchange. it is not a plug and play media... If a service is on your line then you cant connect to a different one otherwise you would not need a MAC when you wanted to move or go through the hassle of downtime when changing suppliers

I never had AOL, I was with Pipex.

The people who lived in my house before me didn't have broadband either

sco0ter

Greensprout wrote: »

I never had AOL, I was with Pipex.

The people who lived in my house before me didn't have broadband either

Then someone must have had PIPEX there as the broadband signal is sent to the router and has to be present before any connection can be made.. Its not like dial up .. Thats why when you do a check they can tell if your line has broadband on it or not.. you can only have one broadband provider at a time

amcluesent

At a guess, accounts on ISP who buy services from BT Wholesale may be 'portable' so long as you give a valid username/password the BT exchange infrastructure will recognise this and route your IP traffic to the ISP's 'cloud'.

If your ISP has done Local Loop Unbundling, then the line you registered on has been disconnected from BT at the exchange and connected to ISP owned kit. Chances are that account isn't portable and gives horrendous problems getting your MAC number to go back to BT.

sco0ter

So what you are saying is that if one person was with BT and another with an ISP supplied by BT then they could use each others accounts???

amcluesent

>So what you are saying is that if one person was with BT and another with an ISP supplied by BT then they could use each others accounts?<

Err, not quite. Lots of ISP, inc. BT themselves, are offering services on different tariffs etc.but the basic infrastructure is all from BT Wholesale. At a guess the BT Wholesale kit in the exchange is configured to 'recognise' the login credentials from the different ISP and then route the IP traffic on the 'back haul' network to that ISP. So long as your login credentials can be validated, you can use an unbundled line - if it wasn't all automated the economics wouldn't stack up for BT Wholesale.