Re: [Sheflug] Re: ISDN Control

[Alec Melling <melling [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 24 February 2003 14:57, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Jonathan
>
> > Oh go on, tell the story, you know you want to.
>
> Oh .. okay.  Apologies to those of us who don't want to know about
> it..
>
> Back on January 7th it was explained to me by BT that I would have to
> have my ISDN line removed in order to have it tested for broadband.
> They came along and removed my line.  The week after they told me on
> the phone that there was no need to remove my line.  They could test
> it with ISDN still intact.  No line left.  Just an analogue line.  A
> week later they arrived to install broadband.  Line doesn't suport
> broadband.  Can't be installed.  What followed made Dads' Army and
> most of the Ealing comedy films look like serious documentary by
> comparison.   Meanwhile I had to build a new computer that would
> support a 56K modem at enormous cost to myself.  You can imagine what
> I thought about that ?
>
>
> Last week my BT technician arrived - I now have my own personal BT
> technician - and re-fitted HH.  Now works fine.  So, that's a total
> of about 2.5 months to re-install ISDN when there was no need to have
> it removed anyway.
>
> I seem to remember something from my childhood.  A song on BBC radio
> in the 1960's which was by Flanders and Swan.. The Gas Man Cometh ..
> or something like that ...  T'was on the Monday morning that the gas
> man came to call ....

I told you... You should have done what I did. Told my neighbor that he needed 
asdl... BT came and tested his line and told him he was to far from the 
exchange. As my house is the other side of his from the exchange.... I 
thought "Stick with ISDN/HH".....
-- 
Alec Melling <melling [at] clara.co.uk>
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