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[Wittsend]

I posted this back in March ...

Happy Birthday to you   



Some on here have advocated using a cable between your BT box and your laptop.
This eBay link shows the type of cable you need.
auction: #322216272146
  Buy this cable.
I've selected one 5m long.
If you need a longer cable there are plenty to choose from.

Tis a "messy" solution as you'll have a cable trailing round the house and plugged into the back of your laptop - can make things a bit more awkward - but hard wiring to the internet should mean you don't get a dropped connection.

Get the cable and see how it goes with that .....

Have you not ordered that cable off eBay - it should be with you by now

[w3526602]

Hi Alan,

Yes, cable received many yonks ago, but ...

... are you telling me that I can plug my LAP TOP into the BT supply? I thought lap-tops were wireless only?

My previous queries were about my desk-top, which went to the "Great desk in the sky".

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[andrewR]

Extra question...

If I already have the shorter pull-through studs fitted, but I wanted to "upgrade" to the longer ones, how big is the risk that when I drive out the short one, it will leave a hole that is too large for a new one? It is kind of meant to be a one-time process, but I suppose as long as the diameters are close, new-stud to old-stud, and you arrange that the new stud splines don't go exactly into the old stud spline "slots", it would be okay.

I think I have replaced one of my original "short" stud pull-thoughs with another one last year, as the thread was a bit damaged. I just about got away with it that time.

[originally I opened up my holes carefully with a file, way back in 1988]

[edwardatherton]

If anyone is interested, I would order a set of ten extended stude from Zeus and then send out 1 or 2 to anyone else who wants them.
I would keep a few for myself but have no need (yet anyway!) for all ten.  It would be just be the cost to me per stud, plus the cost of onward shipping.

[w3526602]

Hi Alan,

Reference your concern about cables lying over the halll floor ... there is a socket (not the master) just the other side of the walll between my "study" and our bedroom. A discreet hole drilled through at skirting level would be seen by nobody.

Or I can go vertically from the master, through the ceiling, and back down again, into the study... but the verticals will eat into the avalaible length.