the joy of downloading...

[mark]

one day in a far off time, I will be able to upgrade my tin can/string based communications system.

Started downloading something I\'ve been after for a while on the 8th of february, its now only got 2hrs left to complete, that, according to my maths is nearly a week.

Now whats the betting it won\'t work when its finished, iether that or the nasty TCP/IP fairies will drop my connection just before its finished and it\'ll have to start all over again!

[rich]

jesus what are you downloading ?the bible

[5150]

I know how that feels.. I\'m on broadband at home, but only a 150kbps service. The ISP offered everyone upgrades to double their package at no extra cost, but then mailled me to say there are problems with the exchange so I have to stay on the one I\'m on.. they\'ve knocked a whopping £1 a month off the bill though.. bleh. Not like I\'m in the wilds though either!

[mark]

jesus what are you downloading ?the bible

kind of....Full set of electronic charts for europe!

[alan]

Still no ADSL up your way Mark,so much for making Broadband accessible to ALL

[bribones]

he`ll just have to peddle faster

[mark]

Caution BT rant ahead....

BT took 25million off one north east to promote broadband in the durham dales by 28/2/05. For there part of the deal BT has to make every exchnage compliant with dsl. My exchange, on a list of 400 comes guess where, thats it 400th, ......and is not scheduled to be done till...thats right the very last day 28/2/06. So I\'ve bit me lip for the last year, thinking that it only a few months now etc...

so heres the rub, 25mill to put 1 logic board in 400 exchanges, ta very much. However there is no obligation on BT to ensure the lines from the exchanges can actually support a dsl signal, and will our lines out here la la land support em...nope , and will BT invest any of there own money to renew the lines .... nope. Quote from BT: \"Its not economical for us to do it at this time\", so just down the road at eastgate there will be some shiny new cpu to route a dsl signal to.....well itself really.

by my maths thats 62500 quid to per cpu. and we all paid for it cos the government gave them the money to pu them in