🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <ssz44CAsBZcxEwqC@nick01.demon.co.uk>, Nick de Smith
<nick@nick01.demon.co.uk> writes

>After making a formal complaint to a Director of BT, miraculously
>something happened. For two weeks BT engineers were digging up the roads
>near us and pulling new cables. When yours truely shuffled out of his
>outbuilding and asked the foreman what was going on, the reply was that
>some stupid sod had ordered ISDN and due to the decrepid nature of the
>cables in the roads and the trunk back to the area exchange, they had to
>re-lay the lot. He conservatively estimated the cost as 50,000 quid. At
>this point I muttered agreement and shuffled away, before he asked why I
>wanted to know...

Good one.

We winged to Oftel because our modems wouldn't talk to cix over mercury.
They checked the signal level and had BT and Mercury install a new
interconnect between their networks for us at a more local exchange !

We were not populat at BT !  :)


J/.
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John Beardmore