On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:47, Jim Clark (Compaq) wrote: > > ADSL runs over standard phone lines (from local exchange to > customers house/unit/cave). As such, provided your local > exchange is ADSL equiped (most of them by now?) and you > satisfy the conditions (proximity to exchange, line quality,etc), > you can pretty much take your pick of ADSL ISPs. >
Pretty much accurate, but I wanted to share my little experience too. 12 months ago I moved into a new block of units. There was SUPPOSED to be a 'broadband' ISP doing all the connectivitiy (so no foxtel). The ISP went pop and we were left high and dry. I contacted telsra to find out if I could get ADSL. As I don't have a land line (I use orange cdma phones), they gave me the useful response of "We can't tell you if you can get ADSL until you have a phoneline". I found out that the exchange is ADSL ready and so ordered a phoneline, $200 later Telsra tell me that the rim in the building won't support ADSL. So I'm stuck with 56k dialup and a satisfiying feeling when everyone elses broadband connection plays up ;-) -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 Mobile : +61-(0)4-2521-9996 GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
