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

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.

Cheers mate

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..

RADSL - 5.5km :)

I thought ADSL was 5.5 km...

ADSL - 3.5km

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

Cheers
Kav

Unfortunately you would be knackered with the current ADSL standard

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.

so i'm happy :)