What Speed do People get near Tavistock Telephone Exchange?

By pobox112 at 15:07 on 06/02/10

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There is only BT, Tiscali or Orange to choose from. Unless corrected by someone, this appears to be it. Tiscali was taken over by TalkTalk but the change over has not been made yet.

By pobox112 at 15:07 on 06/02/10
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Orange gave us a deal for a while where we saw 14mbs up in Manor Park. Moved into the country now and get 3.5mps and no mobile signal!

By Dartmoor Motorcycle Training at 22:14 on 06/02/10
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Sky provide a service, but to be honest they all use the same telephone lines which they 'hire' off BT

In Tavi the telephone lines are all the old copper stuff, and unlike bigger towns our exchange is out dated. It's due for an upgrade soon as at present it can only supply ADSL, no fibre optic cable or SDSL. But then it does only serve 6000 telephone lines, so I guess the pressure isn't there to provide a better service just yet.

Hope this helps.

By kyloe at 22:52 on 07/02/10
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Yes Sky have no equipment in the exchange at Tavistock. If you go with any other ISP then Orange or Tiscali. It will be more expensive because BT will be providing that Broadband.

dartmoormct - If you are on vodafone, you can get a signal access box for your house, All mobile companies will start to do this at some stage. You need to get a box as part of an upgrade deal to keep costs down. You plug it into your router. You then have your own wireless mobile ariel.

We need FTTP (Fibre to the Cabinet). This will boost Broadband between the exchange and say a village cabinet. Everything else can be copper. I get 1.5 mb. It is not enough, the technology is there. I want to stream HD TV etc (dartmoorct is OK for that).

By pobox112 at 01:05 on 08/02/10
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dartmoormct - Orange have UMA on some of their mobiles. This uses their wireless Broadband for mobile calls. If your mobile supports SIP you could have also have calls via wireless Broadband. They used to have a service called everyphone and you could nominate any phone to receive your calls when not available. This was free as such but than again so was SMS once.

By pobox112 at 01:17 on 02/03/10
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