Mainframeguy
Debiant by way of Ubuntu
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- 29 Aug 2002
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Well hey some of you may know this, but I recently moved and my 24Mb ISP could nto offer service at new address ....
Anyway - at the new place there is already a BT ADSL service (or what pretends to be one!) for an 8Mb ADSL via a router badged as a BT Homehub that has net phone built in....
The thing is, I am getting manifold line drops - line drops from as bad as four an hour - which is a nightmare for my work via TN3270 over VPN so I wonder if I should just cut my losses and have cable put in?
Also is it possible running an extension cord from the main socket to the router has given rise to troubles? (the microfilter is at the socket - so only digital signal should be going along the extra 15m of phone wire)
Any help and advice appreciated, repped, etc etc - especially from Ep whom I believe also suffered a period of BT hell before his exchange offered him alternatives.....
Anyway - at the new place there is already a BT ADSL service (or what pretends to be one!) for an 8Mb ADSL via a router badged as a BT Homehub that has net phone built in....
The thing is, I am getting manifold line drops - line drops from as bad as four an hour - which is a nightmare for my work via TN3270 over VPN so I wonder if I should just cut my losses and have cable put in?
Also is it possible running an extension cord from the main socket to the router has given rise to troubles? (the microfilter is at the socket - so only digital signal should be going along the extra 15m of phone wire)
Any help and advice appreciated, repped, etc etc - especially from Ep whom I believe also suffered a period of BT hell before his exchange offered him alternatives.....