ISDN/ADSL in Country Side ?

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AMDX23800+

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Hi,
I live in the country side about 5km from the exchange and i have to say our lines are CRAP !
Our dial-up connects at 16,800bps :O and you can hear loud buzzing in the background of a phone call, we used to have ISDN on this line, however we had so many problems with it that we just got rid of it.
We then tried ADSL on this line and it didn't even connect ! :O

Now we decided to try ISDN again but with a new line instead, BT installed the new line and the ISDN and it we have had NO problems with it (its been about 3months), also the dial up on this new line connects at 48,200bps + the phone line is much clearer for calls.

Finally the question !... I was wondering, do you think ADSL would work on this new line that we have if i get it converted from ISDN to ADSL? I am asking this because the line seems to be of much higher quality and i would love to have ADSL!, any thoughts welcomed :D

Thanks :)
 
my mate lives about 4 miles away from his exchange and he can get 512k. he too lives in the middle of nowhere.... :p

i have no idea what his standard of service is. but he hasn't complained to me about it like he does most of his computer woes... :)
 
Well i'm 5km (approx 3.3km straight line cable according to samknows) from exchange which is ADSL enabled, The availability checker says we can get a maximum of 512kbps which is fine by me :) .
The thing is, our phone lines are YEARS old but i don't think the fact that BT installed the crappest ever cables and master socket in our house helps the matter really ! I just don't get how one of our lines can connect to dial up at 16,800bps and the other line at 48,200bps !!?? Do you think it is something to do with the phone cables in the house ?
Thanks :)
 
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You'd need an adsl modem or router to do that. I think the reason you can get 48K is due to the isdn, but that depends on whether you're connecting using isdn or dialup.
 
You can't find the SNR until the line has been activated for ADSL - no signal to check for ;)

The problems on your other line may be down to internal wiring, does it make any difference if you plug a modem into the master socket?
 
5km isn't huge - you're only talking about (extremely roughly) 50dB attenuation there. If you're other line's crackling (and, as suggested, you've tried the master socket with no extensions), you should try raising a voice fault with BT.

Whether it'll work or not, you can't really tell unless you try it. ISDN reconversion should be free if it doesn't work though (ie ISDN -> ADSL -> ISDN)...
 
here are my connection speeds -

Old line - Dial up - 16.4k (all sockets)

New line - ISDN - 64k
Dial up - 48.2k (only 1 socket for this line)

Yes, i checked with BT and there are NO charges at all when converting to ADSL or back to ISDN so i may as well give it a shot ! :)
Thanks :)
 
There's normally a £50 charge, except the BT Retail ISPs will waive it if you go with them (though there's better ISPs, BT Retail aren't the only ADSL ISPs, yadda yadda yadda).
 
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