In a message dated 06/01/2008, ian@........... writes:

I asked  about your 12 Km gap as I was wondering if there was a way to plug 
it with  equipment running at broadband rates.  I'm in one of the BT "black  
spots", condemned to never have broadband and I eventually had to put together  
our own community wireless broadband 
(http://www.gmccbroadband.org/  ).  This partly involves filling "gaps" 
across the countryside.  Our  biggest gap is only 5 Km so the stuff we use might 
not help. 


Hi Ian,
 
    I rang BT today about Broadband. They offer 5 Meg  at about 1 mile, 2 Meg 
at 3 miles and only 256 K much over that. The maximum  length of a phone line 
is 14 miles. However, the UK is supposed to be fully  rewired by 2010. ADSL 
are offering 5x the normal dial up rate, with signal  compression and 
packeting, but I would like to see it in operation in a rural  situation first.
 
    My experience is that I can only get about 38 K  reliably at 12 km. I 
suspect that the current coverage outside towns with a  phone exchange is very 
patchy.
 
    Your blog on the above website doesn't seem to  work.
 
    Regards,
 
    Chris Chapman



   






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    Chris Chapman