----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [scottish] BT homehighway and isdn adapter
> [snip] > Things here are pretty grim at the moment connection wise. I've had > Home Highway doing tests for the last three weeks to see if it'll > reach this far ( 4 miles from the exchange , 50/50 according to the > engineer ) > [snip] I take it your exchange hasn't been DSL enabled yet - 4 mi (around 6.4km) is just outside RADSL published limits (Rate Adaptive DSL), which is just regular ADSL, but throttles the upstream when poor line conditions cause problems. The posted limit for ADSL is about 3.5km, RADSL is about 5.5km. The line must also pass a "whoosh" test, where the noise level must be less than 55dB (mine at 1.8km was 23dB). If you've discussed this previously, apologies (wanders off to fiddle with NATted passive FTP serving ...) :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _________ "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ for Sega." -- Brodie, 'Mallrats' =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ @ well.com :: William Anderson U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! http://neuro.wasters.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
