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Originally Posted by muppetman11
The difference being as you told us your parents were on a long line , the estimates given now have to fall within the range ie 10-15mb or your allowed to cancel without penalty.
My line on ADSL was around 8-10mb and fault free we only upgraded due to the fact more of us were using the internet at once , if my line was running at nearer 15mb I'd have never upgraded to fibre at least short term.
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I can understand his reluctance. ADSL is notoriously flaky. I think you got lucky with your line. I had an ADSL line that occasionally sync'd at the full 24Mbit as the exchange was right next to my house, yet we had no end of issues with it from constant drop outs every few weeks to needing to reboot the BeBox nearly daily. Buying our own decent ADSL router helped but the line itself was always dodgy, it'd be fine for weeks then suddenly you'd get a load of noise on it and your sync rate would plummet along with constant disconnections.
That would cue the rigmaorole of phoning the ISP, going through the usual BS diagnostics to prove that, yes, the microfilter was changed, yes, we used the original equipment provided, yes we changed the cabling, etc. until they'd reluctantly book an Openreach engineer and then you're faced with the threat of being charged if he decides there's no fault there (Which one tried to do and we had to fight). Then, they'd finally admit there was a problem and disconnect us immediately while we waited about a week for them to fix something in the exchange. Fun.
So yeah, **** ADSL.