broadband

[tracymort]

i having been waiting ages for my activation day. it was yesterday but bt have changed it to monday. yet the software that came with my adsl modem says it is connected and the receive rate is 2272kbit/s when i am connected using dial up! ooer! when i try to connect using the boradband modem i can 'establish a connection' apparently, yet i don't know what to do after that really. i have had no confirmation of the details from the ISP as bt say my line's not ready yet? ooer .

[robber1]

I had trouble with Freeserve Broadband. I was told it would be so many days before I received the modem etc., it took twice as long. When it arrived, the ASDL line was supposed to be up and running. It wasnt. Another 8 days. It took over 3 weeks to do what should have been done in 10 days. I wont go into the trouble over the payments and being off line completely for a week (due to freeserve). Stay focused, calm and bear in mind that in say 2wks. time it will be history and then enjoy the speed of Broadband. Good luck.

[sddsddean]

Think yourself lucky. BT say that it is not economic to put the ADSL kit into our village exchange, so I'm stuck with a good old LAN connection.

[Phantaxus]

well BT wont do anything over a weekend, but for the weekdays I just tried it everyday untill it connected. If you gave an email address to your isp when you signed up they may keep you informed of progress via that email address.

[starman700]

yeah i live in a village too and it looks like i might get broadband before the next ice age grrrr

[David H]

I have to agree with sddsddean, any broadband is better than none. We were cabled so long ago our system is too old both to handle broadband or interactive TV. (It's NTL by the way, to give them credit.) I doubt they can afford to recable most of North London to fix it either. They knew this when I got cable 7 years ago but it took me another 6 to find out the truth, they kept saying 'later in the year' but clearly couldn't keep up the pretence for ever.