[Sheflug] Re: ISDN

[Richard Ibbotson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David

> 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.

Yes.  It's Home Highway that I use.  I thought it was something to do 
with my HH installation when I heard the expected uninformed reply 
from BT.

>Either
> that or BT has shares in some big cable producers, and they're
> installing big loops in the exchanges!

I was thinking the same :)

> 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.


Yes.  Can't understand why BT can't just use a piece of string to 
measure along the road.  At least that way they could check their 
answer and it is the kind of high tech measurement technology that 
they could be trusted with.  Look what the Egyptians did with bits of 
string for level adjustment and measurement and the pyramids ?

I think it's very odd that I can walk along the road and make an 
accurate measurement of distance with my own eyes and BT can't.

-- 
Thanks



Richard

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