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On Sep 30, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 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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