Date   : Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:42:43 +0100
From   : beeb@... (Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
Subject: [OT] ADSL capabilities

* Rick Murray (rick@...) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for advice.
> 
> My Livebox (a Livebox Mini/Sagem, if it matters) is connected to a phone 
> line. There is no traditional phone, it is broadband only with the phone 
> via VoIP.
> Various websites quote the line as being about 4.4km. I can walk from 
> the house to a big green box by the Mayor and it is around 2.5km. Unless 
> the "real exchange" is hiding in the forest, that's *IT*.

www.samknows.com is the best - put in your postcode in the exchange
search; it'll draw you a map showing the position of the exchange.
Big green boxes are rarely exchanges.

Dave
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