[cumbria_lug] DSL and Moving up to Penrith

[Angie Ahl]

Hi people.

I've been lurking for a while now as I'm a member of the Brighton LUG 
and me and my partner Tommy are moving up to Askham (just south of 
Penrith) in just under a fortnight. I wanted to make sure you don't 
bite before I present myself ;)

Anyway we run a web development company from home using Mac OSX and 
have Linux servers, we're big open source fans (I program in Perl), but 
being typical computer folk decided we really did need to get our bums 
off the sofa and we just fell in love with the mountains so we're 
coming up.

A little scared right now as we don't really know anyone up there and a 
345 mile move is just a *little* daunting, but the main thing freaking 
me out is being without DSL again for the first time in years.

We were on the DSL trial in London 6 years ago so I could really tell 
you some stories about that... BT were just that bit worse than you 
think even they could be, but they've learnt a lot since then 
thankfully. Lets just say 6 of us hounded them constantly, putting up 
webpages etc to show *them* that DSL would work on something other than 
Windows ;)

So I was wondering how you guys (including fellow females;) are finding 
broadband up there. The Askham exchange isn't enabled until 10th Nov so 
we're going to have 3 weeks on a modem (It'll do me good I'm sure, 
there's those mountains out back). has the roll out been good up there 
so far? Are BT being prompt at getting the exchanges online and people 
switched on?

BTW if anyone has *any* problems with their DSL getting connected do 
let me know. I may be able to help get it fixed faster. EG did you know 
you can do a line check from your own phone. just phone 151 as if to 
report a fault and an automatic line check option is in there somewhere 
;)

Anyway sorry to go on. I'm a bit excited, or is that nervous ;)

Cheers

Angie