Mark Miwurdz

We're off to sunny Wiltshire and I've found out that the area we're going to has ADSL. Naturally there is a 'but'- because we're going to be living more than 5.5 km from the exchange there'll be too much attenuation on the line. Can you get a signal booster or similar to zap the signal (or am I talking out of my @rse?)

Cheers
Kav

boxst

Hello

No you can't. But BT have increased the noise limit for ADSL, so just get an ISP to place an order and see what happens.

Steve.

Mark Miwurdz

Cheers mate

sempers

Possibly will be able to get RADSL (Rate-adaptive ADSL) - in short, you get the full 576k/s in, and the outgoing is stepped down/up on the fly depending on line noise - can be as low as 20something k/s up IIRC. This goes further out than vanilla ADSL. Can't recall what the distance limits are..

RoadrunnerV2

RADSL - 5.5km

Mark Miwurdz

I thought ADSL was 5.5 km...

RoadrunnerV2

ADSL - 3.5km

Mark Miwurdz

OK. So if we're more than 5.5 km from the exchange, we're kn@ckered?

Cheers
Kav

RoadrunnerV2

Unfortunately you would be knackered with the current ADSL standard

rik1471

I know I live on the borderline from the exchange, my Downstream attenuation is 63.9, but I never receive anything less than 56-60kb sustained download speeds.

rik1471

so i'm happy