RE: [Sheflug] Re: ISDN

["David Morris" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The other thing that you might want to think about is that now that I
> have BT ISDN I can't get rid of it.  I'm locked in by BT who won't do
> anything to help me to change over.  When my ISDN line was put in the
> local exchange was said to be 3.5km away.  When I asked for a
> broadband connection some weeks ago BT suddenly decided that my local
> exchange was 7.5km away.  It hasn't moved.  It's still just five
> minutes walk along the road.

Funnily enough, I had exactly the same problem with Home Highway vs
Broadband. When Highway went in, I was 3km from the exchange. When I did a
line test on the new analogue that work pay for prior to ADSL going in, my
house had moved 550m further up the road. Either that or BT has shares in
some big cable producers, and they're installing big loops in the exchanges!

Either way, I still got my (R)ADSL. I thought the distance limitations for
HH were tighter than those for ADSL though... a fact which still confuses
me.

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D

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