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dl763

dl763

dl763

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Hi All,

Work have asked me how I'd feel about working from home, great, only one problem. I dont have a connected phone line at the moment.

I live quite a way from the exchange so according to speed checkers the best I'm estimated to get is 1meg. I'm not in a Virgin cabled area (although a few houses away there is a green box :().

I'd need a fairly decent connection as we use remote desktop (Log me in) to connect to clients computers.

Any suggestions guys?

Thanks in advance.
 
Not a lot you can do really, although those speed checkers can be wrong. O2 told me they were unable to test my line but I get 5 or 6 meg.

Could check SamKnows to see when BT21CN is being rolled to your area.
 
Thanks for the reply.

WBC has been enabled at my exchange. I managed to check my neighbours router last night while fixing something on their laptop, they're connected to Sky at 1.5 meg.

:(
 
How did you test that?

It would be better if you could get their routers Attenuation and SNR levels.

You get a much better idea that way :)
 
The noise was about 62dB, i put the numbers into a calculator and it came up to be around 1-1.5mb. I'll see if I can fix their machine again so I can have a sneaky peek at their router stats.
 
J.B said:
Could check SamKnows to see when BT21CN is being rolled to your area.
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Sigh. 21CN won't change anything, especially if there isn't even a phone line at the address.

If work are paying for it then see how much they are prepared to go to. Some ISPs will bond lines together which can help, depends what exchange you're on though.
 
Also bear in mind that the biggest issue will be upload if you're moving files over a VPN only getting 256k upstream might be a bit slow if you have to upload anything remotely big.

AAISP are one of the few left that still do proper bonding, but you'll pay through the nose for it.
 
not sure if its going to help but i'll throw in mobile broadband as maybe a possibility? obviously going to depend on what ure 3g/hsdpa connection is like at your house (if any!) also not sure on data rates/contracts....but thought id throw the suggestion in the mix :)
 
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