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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 8:17 pm, Ray Smith wrote: > Voting with my feet meant that I needed an isp that supported linux. > There are many but I also wanted broadband access.DHCP at least finds my You're lucky you can have even one offer of broadband access. I live within the city limits in Plymouth, but ADSL is not available, RADSL fails the survey, I get line noise high enough that even dial-up keeps dropping the line and Eurobell aren't within 1km of the house. > BT don't have an ADSL enable exchange for the street I live in leaving > me with telewest who are cheaper and also don't tie up my phone line. I wish. > Wait you say, adsl lets me use the phone at the same time. > Ah yes. But if your phone line goes down and you haven't opted for a > full adsl NTE point from BT at installation time you will still be high Que? If I ever do get RADSL, I doubt I'll have the luxury of extras - I'll be lucky to get 256kbps at this rate and that's for download as well as upload. > cable. If that goes down I can still connect with PPP. I'll be lumbered with getting a new mobile and using IrDA. (Does anyone know if it even works? I've heard the transfer rates are more akin to a fax machine.) http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/ http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/ http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/ http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/ http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/ http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/ http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/ in Tamerton Foliot. NOW! - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RWbviAEJSii8s+MRAhZeAKCFBZmQcryUqj74Ibf+WgdErcklTQCcCw0B Yb7eYylyBQb+RotqZHhmrZk= =bk6u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.