Re: [Sheflug] Re: ISDN

[Richard Stevenson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Richard Ibbotson wrote:

> > 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.

You're assuming the cable run is shortest-path, or even straight-line,
which it often isn't.  There are people here who are about six hundred
yards from the nearest exchange (they can see the cabinet on the
roadside), but the way $TELCO has run the cables means they're over four
miles away in terms of cable length (and therefore unable to get DSL).  I
don't know if the cable runs are historical accident or not, but I'd be
curious to know.

Cheers

R


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