That I don't know, maybe you can borrow one? Something else that I learned from that experience was that (with Telecom) your login is tied to the phone number, so that your username and password are not really required - Unless you have a static IP, in which case if you supply the wrong username / password you don't get your IP.
Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Leigh Wanstead wrote: > Hi Alister, > > Thanks for the information > > May I ask how to check the line is ADSL2 without buying a ADSL2 router? > > TIA > > Have a nice day > > Regards > Leigh > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Alister Christie > Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2009 1:29 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF TOPIC] Internet connection is not stable > > > With regards to ADSL2, when I looked on the Telecom website, it said we > would not get it (here at work) until 2011. However when our router > failed, we replaced it with an ADSL2 router - and in fact we had ADSL2 > available (for who knows how long). I'm not complaining, but it would > have been nice to know sooner - actually I am complaining. > > We've been using xtra for awhile and have few complaints (see above). > Surprising their tech support is quite helpful (on the two or three > times I've had to ring them). We were without internet for a couple of > days after a power cut - we'll not totally without internet, we all ran > of a single mobile jetstream card until it was up and running again. > > Alister Christie > Computers for People > Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 > http://www.salespartner.co.nz > PO Box 13085 > Johnsonville > Wellington > > > > John Bird wrote: > >> xtra fine here - had slingshot for a couple of years, on a slow adsl >> with a high cap (25GB) which was fine - switched to telecom, std >> package is quite fast broadband (around 2mbs), have been able to live >> within a 3GB cap, but its not enough any more...no problems with >> reliability with either Slingshot or xtra. Slingshots accounts dept >> were fast asleep tho, thats the only reason I switched. >> >> No telstra cable here. No ADSL2 until Apr 2011. Disadvantages of >> all the lines being underground here I suspect. Oh and no Telstra >> cable to compete against. >> >> John >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: >> > unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: > unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: > unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
