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Roses Posts: 470 Joined: 9th Mar 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 16:21 on 17th June 2008 I feel like i am living in the stone age with DREADED dial-up. |
Sue H Posts: 8172 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 16:39 on 17th June 2008 You are! Once you change to broadband/DSL you'll wish you'd done it earlier, allot earlier. |
Peter Evans Posts: 3863 Joined: 20th Aug 2006 Location: UK | quotePosted at 19:47 on 17th June 2008 Roses, cant you get broadband where you live? I know a few people in America who cant get broadband. Dialup is soooo slow. |
Andy Edwards Posts: 1900 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 20:08 on 17th June 2008 I have dial up broadband. No, I'm serious. Kingston communications, the local telephone company and internet server, has the monopoly around these parts. They charge me £27.95 a month for the priviledge of using their service and I have NO choice in the matter. BT won't entertain me, it would cost a small fortune to get a line in. If ever you come to Hull, or in fact anywhere in the HU postcode you will notice something unique in England......white phone boxes, as painted by Kingston communications. I'm 500 yards from the nearest BT exchange and I still only get about 2 meg on my 'up to 8 meg' contract. Curly and short spring to mind. |
Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | quotePosted at 20:42 on 17th June 2008 Broadband for me Roses, but ouch Andy! In fact I know this to be the case Andy because Jeff also has the same 'deal'. I reckon you should start a petition up there because you are clearly being victimised, and where's your freedom of choice? (Check out the Human Rights Act, I bet that covers it!!!). Incidentally, I had contact with Jeff just a couple of days ago and he said Barbara was doing well after her release from hospital. |
| Roses Posts: 470 Joined: 9th Mar 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 21:23 on 17th June 2008 Peter, no, not able to get it at the moment. We are currently living in a rural area, so it is not available. We are considering buying a house and that will MOST DEFINATELY be one of the pre requisites! |
| Sue H Posts: 8172 Joined: 29th Jun 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 21:27 on 17th June 2008 Rural where? I live in the rurals, but thank goodness DSL is available. |
| Andy Edwards Posts: 1900 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 21:34 on 17th June 2008 That's good news Ron! My very best wishes to you Barbara. |
L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 07:03 on 18th June 2008 We had no choice either Andy, living in a rural area our BT exchange is small and wasn't ready for it until only about a year or so ago so we had to go with NTL (Virgin now) as they were the only company who decided to put it in in our village. Even now we only have them or BT, but BT can only handle speeds up to 4mb, so we stayed with Virgin. My best wishes also to Barbara! |
Jo Adams Posts: 231 Joined: 23rd Sep 2006 Location: UK | quotePosted at 20:21 on 18th June 2008 My daughter, who also lives in a rural area, had the same problem getting Broadband. When BT eventually renewed all the cables etc so she could get it, she still couldn't. An engineer was called out again and although the new cables were there, whoever had done it in the first place had reconnected the old cables and left the new ones dangling. Now she can connect only if she uses the telephone to dial out first, then hangs up! Dare I say "What's the matter with BT?" !!!! |
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