Re: [LUG] ADSL sucking in Truro

["Shaun Orchard" <sorchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is a particular sport of BT Wholesales' to ensure that if an exchange has too little backhaul, the ETA for the addition of new backhaul is always in the next decade, and when the ETA approaches, it's extended again (with the excuse that it's a contended service)

Fortunately my pokey village exchange only went red once (although that didn't affect me) and after waiting for ages to BT to fix it, hasn't gone red again.

Hopefully BT will eventually do something about it, perhaps prodding your ISP's customer service (if they are decent like Entanet/Zen) may provoke BT to do something.



Shaun

On 1/2/08, Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

Is it just me thats having a miserable time with ADSL in Truro (or
threemilestone) - a couple of weeks ago out connections dropped from >
1Mbit to 160Kbs - that's right 160Kbs, testing it with speed check
websites rated my connection as poorer than a 56K modem.

Apparently the Truro exchange is "congested" and due an upgrade on
20th December 2007 -   grrrh!

This is really starting to get on my wick - I work from home and it's
really affecting my ability to do anything, incredibly fraustrating.

A.

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