Originally Posted by
mixture
B Fraser
You're not meant to put "Nortel" and "good" in the same words when Mike's lurking around the forums...
Best company I ever worked for.
Excellent care of their employees - lightyears better than i've experienced elsewhere. Just a shame they lost their way after 2000 really. The 1990s was an immense time to work for them!
Originally Posted by
B Fraser
The miles of twisted "crud" is down to where you choose to live and if you are indeed miles from the nearest cabinet then you can't expect to live in the sticks and enjoy the benefits of living in a town and vice versa. The twisting in any case gives the copper pair shielding from EMF interference unlike the untwisted crud in your domestic wiring hence my earlier comments that the home domain fouls up BB to a surprising degree.
I trust BOAC is not "Better On Ancient Copper"
My house was built in 1987, and Bracknell was blessed with jobsworth morons when the original BT trunk was laid as my house is 1.2km from the exchange as the crow flies, but 9.1km from the exchange as the cable runs. It was only 2006 when I could actually get ADSL through the phone lines via RADSL, and that was only at circa 1mbit/s.
The year before last, I ran some Cat5E from the house entry point (i.e. prior to the master socket) and into a new socket. I'm now synced at 2.6mbit/s (and BT can sod off if they think that i've done a bad job).