Dial up has satisfied my requirements for about 10 years and I still
don't need broadband. However, I'm under pressure from my wife to
provide faster WEB facilities and so I will need to move to ADSL. In
most of the usenet groups that mention ADSL broadband conversions I
see mainly bad news. How many conversions work first time? Just a
approx % will be useful.


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steve@easynn.com wrote in news:g25e919jhqr77ur5co70dp971cmmngh4a8@4ax.com:

> Dial up has satisfied my requirements for about 10 years and I still
> don't need broadband. However, I'm under pressure from my wife to
> provide faster WEB facilities and so I will need to move to ADSL. In
> most of the usenet groups that mention ADSL broadband conversions I
> see mainly bad news. How many conversions work first time? Just a
> approx % will be useful.

I would say that the vast majority goes through fine - there are some
3000-odd new connections per week and the problems you see here probably
represent a fraction of a percent of the ADSL connections in the country.

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steve@easynn.com wrote:
: most of the usenet groups that mention ADSL broadband conversions I
: see mainly bad news. How many conversions work first time? Just a
: approx % will be useful.

"Conversion", as used here, usually applies to ISDN/Home Highway to
ADSL. This is NOT that common but does need BT and the ISP to cooperate.

Adding ADSL to a normal phone line is pretty straightforward.

On 27 May 2005 13:47, steve@easynn.com wrote:

>In most of the usenet groups that mention ADSL broadband conversions
>I see mainly bad news. How many conversions work first time ?

When you mention conversions, are you meaning from ISDN/Home Highway ?
If not, then activation of ADSL is typically problem-free. I'd be very
surprised with hundreds of thousands of users, if a small portion hadn't
had a problem of some sort, and those would be ones mostly mentioned, not
the majority which went smoothly. Peter M.

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On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:47:32 +0100, steve@easynn.com wrote:

>How many conversions work first time?

over 97% would by my guess. The BT pre-qualification limits per
September 2004 were conservative. If you get the "Very unlikely"
message on the www.bt.com/broadband checker it may not be as good.

Your wiring and your PC kit can be an issue, or course.

a snippet from BT "One important thing for BT is that the 17% of
orders that used to go to the manual records check is now down below
3%. The 4% that then went to the field for expensive field engineers
to test are now less than
1%."

Phil

On Fri, 27 May 2005 15:08:12 +0100, Peter M <us-mail@rocketmail.com>
wrote:

>On 27 May 2005 13:47, steve@easynn.com wrote:
>
>>In most of the usenet groups that mention ADSL broadband conversions
>>I see mainly bad news. How many conversions work first time ?
>
>When you mention conversions, are you meaning from ISDN/Home Highway ?
>If not, then activation of ADSL is typically problem-free. I'd be very
>surprised with hundreds of thousands of users, if a small portion hadn't
>had a problem of some sort, and those would be ones mostly mentioned, not
>the majority which went smoothly. Peter M.

No, I'm think of going from dial up to HomeOffice500 or 1000. Both
look simple and quite economical.


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EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks.
http://www.easynn.com

<steve@easynn.com> wrote in message
news:g25e919jhqr77ur5co70dp971cmmngh4a8@4ax.com...
> Dial up has satisfied my requirements for about 10 years and I still
> don't need broadband. However, I'm under pressure from my wife to
> provide faster WEB facilities and so I will need to move to ADSL. In
> most of the usenet groups that mention ADSL broadband conversions I
> see mainly bad news. How many conversions work first time? Just a
> approx % will be useful.

My changeover at AOL was exceptionally smooth as also was a friend's with
little or no PC knowledge. Another friemd with BT had a number of problems
which took some time to resolve.

(kim)