Telkom Line Installation Question

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StNick

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I want to order a Telkom line on Monday for ADSL. The problem / question that I have is that I need to have the extension put in the spare room (where my PC is). When we moved into this place, there was and still is a Telkom phone-jack on the wall in the lounge.

I'm told that if it is the first time you are ordering a line, Telkom are obliged to put the point anywhere that you choose. However, I just KNOW that the technician will walk in, see the existing jack, and come up with some excuse as to why he cannot relocate it to the bedroom (or worse, try and charge me R1,000 for it).

Can someone in the know please clarify what the real deal here is, and/or the best way for me to go about this with the least amount of admin from Telkom.
 
same boat as you
what happened in the end? did you get it installed where u want it? any extra charges?
 
I previously had 2 phones runnign of the same line at home.

When i ordered my ADSL line, my dad simply bridged the cables in the box and ran a phone cable to my room.

For all the phones to work, you will need a dsl\line filter :-D its around R30 i think. I only have one that came with my router, so the phone is sitting in my room at the moment. Hopefully i get another filter this week.

You can bridge the cable urself bro :-D Just get the cable.
 
I got the line installed where I want it.

The techie didn't seem too impressed with me, but she (yeah "she") did it without really kicking up a fuss. They aren't allowed to go through the roof apparently, so the result was about 100m of cable running up the walls, across the ceilings, down the walls again, back up etc....

To be fair, she did a very neat job though.
 
StNick said:
I got the line installed where I want it.

The techie didn't seem too impressed with me, but she (yeah "she") did it without really kicking up a fuss. They aren't allowed to go through the roof apparently, so the result was about 100m of cable running up the walls, across the ceilings, down the walls again, back up etc....

To be fair, she did a very neat job though.
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I wonder if they would have done it through the roof if you volenteered to do the climbing ......... :p

- It might be to prevent people from falling through the ceiling, causing hurt to themselves & damage to your property -
 
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