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Re: RPC and BT?

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In message <528466e679tim@invalid.org.uk>
          Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> wrote:

> In article <528464ae15dave@davenoise.co.uk>, Dave Plowman (News)
> <dave@davenoise.co.uk> wrote:
>> Took my laptop next door and found it seemed to work rather quicker.
>> Their ISP is BT - mine was Pipex now Talktalk or whatever they call
>> themselves now.

> Do Pipex/talk Talk etc., have their own equipment installed in your
> exchange or (as mine does here) does your ISP resell a BT connexion?

> www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search

> It may only be a better quality line, or a better/newer ADSL modem giving
> better 'reception' down the wire. BT may be crap at a lot of things but
> their Home Hubs seem pretty good.

Don't forget if their router is used then it may be that it has 11n 
wireless as opposed to 11g and some have gigabit ports all of which 
help.

Also you need to be careful in that even lines to the same premises 
can exhibit different speeds and throughput as thats my experience 
with the two ADSL lines coming in to my house. I've had entertaining 
discussions about the speed difference and lets just say the line that 
terminates in the house at the earliest/shortest main point isn't the 
quickest but the autorobotots on the support lines still spout out the 
same line "it varies on the length of your line" even though one is at 
least 10 mtrs shorter by length in my house than the other to the 
termination point.

The other thing that varies things are ADSL equipement in the main 
exchange , airborne interference, mains interference, extn sockets 
etc.

> [Snip]

>> If I went over to BT, would there be problems setting everything up to
>> work in the same way?

> Can't see why there would be.

There should not be an issue though a RISC OS browser friendly router 
sometimes helps.

You would also need to know details of the mail/news servers and 
possibly the primary/secondary named servers. All of these details are 
available via the BT online help articles

Doug

-- 
See and experience the future using ARM Technology - BeagleBoard -xM, 
Cortex A8 and RISC OS 5.19.

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RPC and BT? "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-04-22 13:04 +0100
  Re: RPC and BT? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-04-22 13:29 +0100
    Re: RPC and BT? Doug Webb <doug.j.webb@btinternet.com> - 2012-04-22 13:56 +0100
      Re: RPC and BT? Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-04-22 14:36 +0100
        Re: RPC and BT? Doug Webb <doug.j.webb@btinternet.com> - 2012-04-22 17:08 +0100
      Re: RPC and BT? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-04-22 15:20 +0100
  Re: RPC and BT? spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-04-22 14:06 +0100
    Re: RPC and BT? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-22 16:05 +0100
      Re: RPC and BT? T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-04-22 22:04 +0100
        Re: RPC and BT? Doug Webb <doug.j.webb@btinternet.com> - 2012-04-22 22:26 +0100
          Re: RPC and BT? T M Smith <thomas.smith57@ntlworld.com> - 2012-04-22 22:43 +0100
          Re: RPC and BT? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-22 23:08 +0100
            Re: RPC and BT? Tony Moore <old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-22 23:03 +0000
              Re: RPC and BT? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-23 09:06 +0100
            Re: RPC and BT? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-23 02:15 +0200
              Re: RPC and BT? spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-04-23 19:57 +0100
                Re: RPC and BT? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-24 05:25 +0200
                Re: RPC and BT? cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-04-24 13:25 +0100
            Re: RPC and BT? Rosemary Miskin <miskin@orpheusmail.co.uk> - 2012-04-23 19:20 +0100
      Re: RPC and BT? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-22 23:16 +0100
        Re: RPC and BT? spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-04-23 20:01 +0100
          Re: RPC and BT? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-24 09:30 +0100
      Re: RPC and BT? spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-04-23 00:01 +0100

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