Disconnecting BT and BB.

spike7451

brewerdave wrote: »

Because when they cease your phone line someone at the exchange will also disconnect you physically from your BB connection - this then frees up the space for another customer to be connected.:(

Exactly,

In the case of both phone & broadband,an engineer has to physically disconnect your service by removing what are called 'Tie Pairs' or 'Cross Connects'.
These are lengths of wire that link the network side to the line that runs to your street cabinet & then on to your home.BT pay BT Openreach to do this work & hence get billed for it.

The pic below shows all the Tie Pairs on a couple of mainframes;
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_w0itlmHzYw4/R-r0PJZ21lI/AAAAAAAACHs/gYpSaLKtNDE/Several+Occasions+031.jpg

spark_deals

This is the speed I get with 1MB file on t-mobile web-n-walk with USB modem.
Please comment.

Mark_In_Hampshire

spark_deals wrote: »

This is the speed I get with 1MB file on t-mobile web-n-walk with USB modem.
Please comment.

Well, it's almost exactly level with what we get from Three 3G.

And 1246kbps faster than our ADSL could ever manage.