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Story: BT ditches broadband line length limit

Posted by: Steve (Sunday 17 April 2005, 4:39 PM)

It is a joke, ain't it? I applied last October for broadband and was told that my line had passed the test, so I git it......and it didn't work! Well, not between about 17:00 and 07:00, which, let's face it is the time when we mostly use the Internet. Numerous phone calls to my ISP (AOL) failed to resolve the issue. Telecom, as far as I know, won't talk to the Great Unwashed, and now it seems that my line length is too great to allow me to have Broadband. I live about 6 miles form Ipswich (Yes, I know "Carrot Crunchers" and all that, and about 3 miles from my local exchange, so I'm hardly remote from civilization, am I? Make me laugh really......Any ideas how I can get Telecom to send an engineer out to check on my house wiring etc? I mean, it did work for a while....Oh, and my dial up connection speed ranges from about 24kbps to a max of 33kbps....Line fault?

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Story: BT ditches broadband line length limit

And about time too...but after the hype...will it... L A Evans
It is a joke, ain't it? I applied last Octobe... Steve
A bit of info for people living far away... Bill
Having just applied to BT for 512K broadband conne... Christopher Anderson
I am well within the 6k limit in a newly developed... Duncan Campbell

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