[rogerg (Roger)]

G'day all,

There's a few IT & T people in this forum (just a few), perhaps someone has an idea on how to help here...

My brother lives about 6.5km from the exchange their phones are provided via. Due to the long distance the telco's he's tried (optus, telstra, iinet) always deny him an ADSL connection, saying the line quality is not sufficient, and distance too long.

However, we know for a fact that his neighbour has in the past had and ADSL connection. They had that until recently, when they asked their telco to move the termination form their old house, to their new house just completed. Upon coming out to do the work, the technician declared that ADSL would not function that far out, and promptly disconnected them. Of course if the neighbour had known this, they would have simply run a CAT5 to the new house.

So now, neither my brother nor the neighbour seem able to get ADSL. Even though the neighbour did have it.

It seems like if they would just let them try it, it might work (probably would, it did before). But no telco they've found is willing to just do the install and try it.

I have read on Wirlpool for my own purposes that some routers have much better distance capabilities than others, some apparently working up to about 6km from exchanges.

For now, my brother is stuck on Satellite.

Anyone got any suggestions on a way to get ADSL installed, just to try the thing??

Thanks,
Roger.