Hi Tom, Phone 150 and ask. Then get your neighbours to do the same. Every day... for about a year.
One day, somebody will go into a meeting and get told "We've been getting a lot of calls about FTTC in Lower Wallop and all the crazy old people say they are near a box..." Kind regards, Mike On 5 October 2015 at 21:43, Tom Bird <[email protected]> wrote: > Evening, > > To set the scene, my parents live in a village. It's sort of an L shape, > and has just gained a shiny new BT FTTC box, somewhere around the corner of > the L. > > Houses down one leg of the L seem able to order this service, but from > playing with the BT service checker widget, nobody on the other half of the > L can, the checker just comes up with the old services, even when the house > is right next to the box. > > Since they're stuck with 2 meg on a good day right now, it'd be nice to > get them on at least a 40/10 service. Does anyone know how many chickens I > need to sacrifice to make this happen? We could go as far as a goat if > needed. > > I have a suspicion that it'll be something involving old exchange-only > phone lines too, but I think they'll be more than happy to order a new one > if it fixes this problem. > > Thanks, > -- > Tom > > :: www.portfast.co.uk / @portfast > :: hosted services, domains, virtual machines, consultancy > >
