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Rob, Humm - am I right in thinking that 'cos of the distance from the exchange, all the supplies will struggle with speed. Currently I'm very happy with my ISP (Nildram ) and would be reluctant to change.. Cheers, Chris On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 18:10 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > chris tipney wrote: > > Rob, > > > > Thanks for the link - I get : > > > > BT Wholesale ADSL > > BT Wholesale ADSL Max > > O2 / Be LLU > > TalkTalk (CPW) LLU > > Tiscali LLU > > Orange LLU (Formerly Wanadoo) > > > > Same using both methods. > > Ahh so your local exchange doesn't support Sky then. You could get free > broadband from Carphone Warehouse or broadband from O2. O2 do up to 24 > Meg broadband so you might possibly be able to get over 0.5MBit (O2 and > Be use ADSL2+ kit for their LLU service which provides up to 24Mbit > depending on line length and quality). > > > > > The distance the exchange show 5273 metres and the speed ~0.5MBS - which > > is roughly what we get. > > > > Ouch that's a long line! > > > My neighbour, who is only another 30 metres downstream gets no ADSL, but > > Sky claim to be fitting what he describes as a 'booster' to his line to > > enable him to get 2 Mbs - sounds fishy to me but hey ...... it's being > > tested this week. If it works it might have to change. > > Hmm, sounds a bit fishy. > > This gives more information about ADSL, it seems that with ADSL Max you > can get from about 160Kbit/s. > > Rob > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html