Ouch!

Found a nice little house after my divorce. nice village just up the road
from mine but about twice the size. Moving in on Friday - went to set up the
ADSL...

On the BT broadband site..

Your exchange has ADSL broadband.

However, despite an engineer's visit to your premises it has been proved not
possible for your telephone line to support broadband service. Please accept
our apologies. We are continuing to look for alternative technology
solutions and this site will be updated with developments as they happen.

Thank you for your interest.

This is 35 miles from central london on the main drag out to suffolk - main
line Liverpool st 25 min.
Still can't quite believe it.. Anything I can do guys?

Paul

"Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Found a nice little house after my divorce. nice village just up the road
> from mine but about twice the size. Moving in on Friday - went to set up
the
> ADSL...
>
> On the BT broadband site..
>
> Your exchange has ADSL broadband.
>
> However, despite an engineer's visit to your premises it has been proved
not
> possible for your telephone line to support broadband service. Please
accept
> our apologies. We are continuing to look for alternative technology
> solutions and this site will be updated with developments as they happen.
>
> Thank you for your interest.
>
> This is 35 miles from central london on the main drag out to suffolk -
main
> line Liverpool st 25 min.
> Still can't quite believe it.. Anything I can do guys?
>
> Paul

Mobile broadband, Orange, Voda or 3 ???

Paul wrote:

> Found a nice little house after my divorce. nice village just up the road
> from mine but about twice the size. Moving in on Friday - went to set up the
> ADSL...
>
> On the BT broadband site..
>
> Your exchange has ADSL broadband.
>
> However, despite an engineer's visit to your premises it has been proved not
> possible for your telephone line to support broadband service. Please accept
> our apologies. We are continuing to look for alternative technology
> solutions and this site will be updated with developments as they happen.
>
> Thank you for your interest.
>
> This is 35 miles from central london on the main drag out to suffolk - main
> line Liverpool st 25 min.
> Still can't quite believe it.. Anything I can do guys?

Care to mention the village ?

Graham

"Jabberwocky" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:g7sgsg$rit$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Found a nice little house after my divorce. nice village just up the road
>> from mine but about twice the size. Moving in on Friday - went to set up
>> the ADSL...
>>
>> On the BT broadband site..
>>
>> Your exchange has ADSL broadband.
>>
>> However, despite an engineer's visit to your premises it has been proved
>> not possible for your telephone line to support broadband service. Please
>> accept our apologies. We are continuing to look for alternative
>> technology solutions and this site will be updated with developments as
>> they happen.
>>
>> Thank you for your interest.
>>
>> This is 35 miles from central london on the main drag out to suffolk -
>> main line Liverpool st 25 min.
>> Still can't quite believe it.. Anything I can do guys?
>>
>> Paul
>
> Could ask your choice of ISP to re-check the data. I had one only a week
> ago where the problem was a fault with the line data showed it way, way
> beyond tolerance for an ADSL. Closer investigation showed they were half
> a mile from the exchange and the data was screwed. Once fixed they had an
> estimate of 8Mb. Not guaranteeing this would be the case with you, but
> worth a try. Also try and find where your local exchange is in relation
> to you, and do a guestimate of how far it is away (allow a bit for it not
> being a straight line of cable). If less than 5Km, odds are it should be
> OK, over 5Km, a bit more iffy. Again, not a guarantee, but a good rule of
> thumb that has served me well and rarely let me down.

Ask what the immediate neighbours have. If they get good ADSL, then apply
for a brand new phone line, and get a professional ISP to provision it with
ADSL. When complete, ditch the original line.

--
Graham J

Graham J wrote:

> "Jabberwocky" wrote
> > "Paul" wrote
> >
> >> Found a nice little house after my divorce. nice village just up the road
> >> from mine but about twice the size. Moving in on Friday - went to set up
> >> the ADSL...
> >>
> >> On the BT broadband site..
> >>
> >> Your exchange has ADSL broadband.
> >>
> >> However, despite an engineer's visit to your premises it has been proved
> >> not possible for your telephone line to support broadband service. Please
> >> accept our apologies. We are continuing to look for alternative
> >> technology solutions and this site will be updated with developments as
> >> they happen.
> >>
> >> Thank you for your interest.
> >>
> >> This is 35 miles from central london on the main drag out to suffolk -
> >> main line Liverpool st 25 min.
> >> Still can't quite believe it.. Anything I can do guys?
> >>
> >> Paul
> >
> > Could ask your choice of ISP to re-check the data. I had one only a week
> > ago where the problem was a fault with the line data showed it way, way
> > beyond tolerance for an ADSL. Closer investigation showed they were half
> > a mile from the exchange and the data was screwed. Once fixed they had an
> > estimate of 8Mb. Not guaranteeing this would be the case with you, but
> > worth a try. Also try and find where your local exchange is in relation
> > to you, and do a guestimate of how far it is away (allow a bit for it not
> > being a straight line of cable). If less than 5Km, odds are it should be
> > OK, over 5Km, a bit more iffy. Again, not a guarantee, but a good rule of
> > thumb that has served me well and rarely let me down.
>
> Ask what the immediate neighbours have. If they get good ADSL, then apply
> for a brand new phone line, and get a professional ISP to provision it with
> ADSL. When complete, ditch the original line.

Might work. A PITA but still best in the long term.

Graham

Paul wrote:
> This is 35 miles from central london on the main drag out to suffolk
> - main line Liverpool st 25 min.
> Still can't quite believe it.. Anything I can do guys?

Don't suppose the area will be cabled either then, will it? (ie Virgin
Media?)

--
Carl Waring
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Paul wrote:
> Found a nice little house after my divorce. nice village just up the road
> from mine but about twice the size. Moving in on Friday - went to set up the
> ADSL...
>
> On the BT broadband site..
>
> Your exchange has ADSL broadband.
>
> However, despite an engineer's visit to your premises it has been proved not
> possible for your telephone line to support broadband service. Please accept
> our apologies. We are continuing to look for alternative technology
> solutions and this site will be updated with developments as they happen.
>
> Thank you for your interest.
>
> This is 35 miles from central london on the main drag out to suffolk - main
> line Liverpool st 25 min.
> Still can't quite believe it.. Anything I can do guys?
>
> Paul
>
>

Hi Paul how have you got on with this?

I've been looking at Satellite broadband on google, quite a few
companies out there that do it, it's the inital set up that's the killer
though. At least now though it's 2 way, I had a friend who had
satellite and only the download came from the satellite and the upload
had to go through an ordinary phone line.

Just do a search for satellite broadband on google and it brings up
loads of different companies, the cheapest I could find the equipment
was £500 and installation was £395, so it'd have to be a long term
soloution, no good if you're moving in 3 months again!