I have the house wired for cable/data/phone with cat5 - 2 separate phone cables - 1 for our part of the house and 1 for my Mother's part.
Two cables have been laid and connected and both connections work.
It has taken nearly 3 months to get these connections.
When the technician had finishedtoday I asked if our line was ADSL suitable. He said that both lines were pair-gained to a RIM at the "Tower", but that there were plenty of copper connections available ( to the exchange I assume), and that our line would be changed to full copper when I requested that ADSL be connected. He said that the work order was for 2 pair-gained connections.
All of this despite the fact that during this whole process I kept reiterating that I wanted a line suitable for ADSL, and the fact that my Mother's old house, which we demolished 14 mths ago in order to build this new house, had a full copper connection (verified by the technician today), and that she retained her existing phone number by having it redirected to our phone at our current residence. In other words, her phone was never disconnected and therefore I believe that the full copper connection should have been retained.
Apart from signing up for an ADSL account with an ISP (not BigPond), is there any other way to get a full copper connection to the exchange? ie does a fax line require this?
As we will not be taking up residence until we have sold our current home I would like to get this phone line "fixed" in advance.
The only other alternative that I can think of is to get ADSL connected, then dial-up from one house to another and connect to the 'Net remotely. Being a relative 'newbie' in many aspects of linux, I'm not sure if I could manage this.
On Monday I will be again calling my contact person at Telstra's complaints line ( that is how we finally gained the connections), and any info/advice re the above matters would be appreciated.
Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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