[Gllug] Phoneline DACSed today. Now reduced to 28.8kbps

[Matthew Thompson]

On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 08:03 AM, Chris Bell wrote:

>    There was no change to the analogue speed on my line after BT 
> connected
> the ADSL, although when my ADSL feed arrived, a BT engineer turned up
> without warning at a house two doors away and removed all the BT ADSL 
> kit.
> The son was paying for the feed by direct debit, fully paid up, but 
> away
> working. His parents let the engineer in without question, and he is 
> still
> battling to get it back.

That's even worse than what happened a few years back to me. I was one 
of the triallists  for ADSL - originally with Freeserve. At the end of 
the trial I wasn't very happy with Freeserve's insistence on filtering 
off SMTP through their own servers as I was running a mailing list from 
home. One of the great things about ADSL, not having to rely on other 
people's servers.

So I duly followed the instructions BT and Freeserve gave, cancelling 
the service and waiting a week (actually 2 as BT couldn't get their 
system right quickly) before re-ordering with a smaller independent ISP 
who would offer me a routed connection.

The installation day arrived and the engineer came, stuck test 
equipment on the line and walked off telling us that there was no way 
that we could have DSL as the line was not upto it. I complained to the 
ISP who pressured BT and they sent a few engineers round - even after 
re-routing the copper that goes to the flat they still couldn't get DSL 
working even though I'd been happily running with it for nearly a year!

Not long after we moved to a flat  under 1/2 a amile from the exchange 
in a commercial area to make sure we could get DSL ;o)

M at t :o)


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