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[equaliser]

We would love broadband but we are over 4 miles from the local exchange. BT say on their website that the best we can hope for is 288 kbps. Any advice other than moving house?

I'm sure lots of people in our area would love to get broadband. How do we get BT to accomodate us?

[KeithD]

We would love broadband but we are over 4 miles from the local exchange. BT say on their website that the best we can hope for is 288 kbps. Any advice other than moving house?

I'm sure lots of people in our area would love to get broadband. How do we get BT to accomodate us?

I doubt it would be that low, as the new MaxDSL they all now use go up to 5 miles, so my guess is BT haven't a clue what they are talking about & 288 kb/s is still X5 the speed of dialup & worth the money.

Rob lives next to the exchange and get 0.27 kb/s

[IainBusby]

We would love broadband but we are over 4 miles from the local exchange. BT say on their website that the best we can hope for is 288 kbps. Any advice other than moving house?

I'm sure lots of people in our area would love to get broadband. How do we get BT to accomodate us?

I've heard about people who live in villages out in the sticks who get up petitions and gather signatures to show BT how many people would be prepared to sign up for broadband if they upgraded the exchange in their area.

Even if the majority of those people don't eventually sign up to get their dsl service from BT, BT will still get a sizeable cut from it because they own the cable backbone, so it's usually worth it for them to upgrade.

[Welsh_Italian]

Talking of good quality, I was chatting to my fiancee yesterday using Yahoo messenger and the voice quality was amazing. We both used headsets (headphones with a microphone attached) which helped, but it sounded like she was in the room speaking right in my ear!