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* Posts by N emo

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Activist coders aim to deafen Phorm with white noise

N emo

@Non-BT Copper ISP

Maybe I should have phrased it a bit better.

by Non-BT Copper ISP I meant any alternative ISP to VM which does not require the use of the BT owned copper (phone lines, exchanges &etc).

My situation is that as I'm so far out from the exchange and my line is in such a state that ADSL from any ISP using the BT infrastructure isn't a viable or credible alternative to VM in terms of bandwidth and/or cost.

It seems, from other comments, I'm not the only one in this position.

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N emo

@Move ISP

good idea, and one I keep hearing,

but for those of us stuck at the end of badly installed copper, at the extreme distance limit from the exchange with a top speed that makes RFC 1149 look attractive (and, with only one working pair left according to the last BT engineer who looked at it 15+ years ago, who then proceeded to make expensive sounding noises about us bearing the cost of any new cable run..at which point, we said hello NTL.), care to name any feasible non-BT copper alternative to VM cable ? (and as cheap as VM, which costs me £10 pcm at present)

I'd jump ship the morrow, if I could (I do not trust the public statements the VM marketing droids have come out with), but I've no alternative service in this area which would match the speed of their cable, e.g. Slackware 12.1 iso downloaded at a consistent 250KB/s overnight, other iso images on previous nights at 150KB/s, total data transferred over three nights; approx 19GB, the worst download speed over the past month being 110KB/s, btw, I don't hammer it like this every night, most nights, the only inbound traffic is NTP and ClamAV updates related (and the usual lame port scans), but I like to know the bandwidth is there when I need it.

So, any non-BT copper ISP suggestions gratefully welcomed..

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