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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:14:08 +0100 "Andrew Pearce" <arpearce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Damn broadband! Damn it! DAMN IT! (I'm a little annoyed) I spent a little while (read: ages) checking out different ISPs, phoning them up and asking some fairly straight forward questions, etc, because I wanted to get ADSL. I eventually decided to go with Virgin since they don't have this minimum of 12month contract rubbish - great as I don't know how long I'll be in Cornwall. Now, my exchange (Helston) has been ADSL enabled for quite a while, when I phone up BT to enquire about it, then checked out the phonenumber/postcode and said "You have an amber line - you won't get a 1 or 2Mb service but there should be no problems with a 512k service." So, I went ahead, signed up with Virgin and the engineer came around yesterday... not a snowballs chance in hell of getting an ADSL connection here! The line loss was ridulously high - how on Earth I was an amber line with that sort of signal quality, I don't know! Anyway, rant over! > As part as a ACTNOW scheme, 7 exchanges are going to > be broadband enabled by the 17th of December. > The exchanges are > > Camelford > Threewaters (blackwater / chacewater area) > Callington > Lostwithiel > Mevagissey > St Day > St Just > > Andrew > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. > -- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.