Re: [Hampshire] Broadband again :-(

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Author: Tim
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Broadband again :-(
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 23:09, john lewis wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:45:47 +0000
>
> Tim <xendistar@???> wrote:
> > Well I have one ADSL line through Zen at work and I won't be going
> > back to them when its renewed in January. I spent an hour and
> > fourty minutes on the phone to tech support today, trying to prove
> > that there was not a problem with my router but the line\service.
> > An hour and a half spent jumping through their hoops to get the
> > router to connect (at which point the tech support guy had a little
>
> <snipped>
>
> > support guy had told me he had seen it doing in the logs). Tech
> > support guy gave up at this point and passed it on to BT :(
>
> Hi Tim
>
> is your zen connection via Winton exchange by any chance?
>
> Apparently there are problems with that exchange and they are due to
> have an upgrade at the end of this month. I found this out through
> the zen portal.
>
> --
> John Lewis
> Debian Linux with Geneweb genealogy application


No its Willersey in Worcs.

The site it's self in on the outer reaches of the exchange and can only get
512k as its that far away from the exchange and its rural as well.

Tim
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