On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:34, Tony Green wrote:
> 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".

very similar to me.  I've got an Onramp Home Highway service.  Same
deal, they won't tell me even if my exchange supports ADSL cos I don't
have a standard PSTN line for them to "test".  They won't even do the
"test" on my neighbour's line.  I'm supposed to revert back to a single
PSTN line, get the test done, if ok, apply for ADSL, if not ok, pay
another $200odd to get the ORHH put back on.

> 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.

well I'm pretty sure my exchange doesn't support ADSL.  Everything else
is ok; distance and plain copper pair (it was a pairgain line, we were
swapped to a clean pair during the ORHH install).

> So I'm stuck with 56k dialup and a satisfiying feeling when everyone
> elses broadband connection plays up ;-)

yep me too!  only other option is DoV ISDN or a satellite "add-on" to
the 50k modem.  (there's rumours of Internode doing wireless out my way
but I get the feeling that's not going to happen immediately)

Dave.

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