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Story: BT ditches broadband line length limit
Posted by: Bill (Monday 3 April 2006, 8:58 PM)
A bit of info for people living far away from exchanges, we live in a rural area 8 miles from the exchange and after numerous attempts to get BB we failed until recently a BT engineer locally had been doing a trial with a different modem a Netgear DG632 which is a self powered modem / router with USB & Ethernet.
Im with AOL but BT gave me the modem and plugged it in and hey presto I have 512kbps service after trying for 18months to get it.
They did nothing to line but make sure your internal line is good, the BT voyager modems that are supplied by BT and AOL will not deal with the signal drop over a long line but the Netgear will hold the signal.
Maybe worth a try for some hope this helps.
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Story: BT ditches broadband line length limit
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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
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I am well within the 6k limit in a newly developed... Duncan Campbell
