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Re: [OM] ( OM ) OT Broad-band and associated issues

Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) OT Broad-band and associated issues
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:13:31 -0400
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On Sep 30, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Chris Barker wrote:

> That sounds like a rip-off, Brian.  I thought that the cost of living in NZ 
> was low.
> 
> Could you not have had broadband for a few months for that cost?
> 
> Chris
> On 30 Sep 2010, at 12:38, Brian Swale wrote:
> 
>> Yesterday I got sufficiently irritated with line-interference and resultant 
>> very 
>> slow connective speed (and the machine telling me that the line was busy 
>> when I knew it was not ( phone-busy, that is)), that I called the local 
>> Telecom 
>> faults people.
>> 
>> Turned out that I needed in-line filters to filter-out the high-speed data 
>> created through the ASDL broad-band connection of my partner's son who, 
>> it turns out, is using the same line. It was seriously corrupting the 
>> low-speed 
>> data of my machine and causing an annoying buzz on the voice-phone.
>> 
>> $81 later ( call-out fee) and $18 for the filter, and I have trouble-free 
>> connectivity, even if slow by the standards of most people.
>> 
>> The company that provided his ASDL broadband should have also provided 
>> the filters.  I had NO idea they were needed - (until now, that is).
> 
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