That sounds like a rip-off, Brian. I thought that the cost of living in NZ was
low.
Could you not have had broadband for a few months for that cost?
Chris
On 30 Sep 2010, at 12:38, Brian Swale wrote:
> Yesterday I got sufficiently irritated with line-interference and resultant
> very
> slow connective speed (and the machine telling me that the line was busy
> when I knew it was not ( phone-busy, that is)), that I called the local
> Telecom
> faults people.
>
> Turned out that I needed in-line filters to filter-out the high-speed data
> created through the ASDL broad-band connection of my partner's son who,
> it turns out, is using the same line. It was seriously corrupting the
> low-speed
> data of my machine and causing an annoying buzz on the voice-phone.
>
> $81 later ( call-out fee) and $18 for the filter, and I have trouble-free
> connectivity, even if slow by the standards of most people.
>
> The company that provided his ASDL broadband should have also provided
> the filters. I had NO idea they were needed - (until now, that is).
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