how can I buy a phoneline instead of renting one?
How do you buy a phoneline?
I very much doubt you can buy a line as such but entering the realms of fantasy (perhaps)...
You could employ someone to run a cable from your home to the nearest serving exchange and install your own equipment there. Bit like some providers do for LLU.
That way you own the line. Trouble is it would cost hundreds if not thousands to install the cable and I have no doubt BT would charge a suitably impressive rent for the equipment you install in their exchange and for the link into the phone network.
Which would probably make a tenner a month or what ever it is (don'r have a landline phone myself!) seem a bargin in comparrison
You could employ someone to run a cable from your home to the nearest serving exchange and install your own equipment there. Bit like some providers do for LLU.
That way you own the line. Trouble is it would cost hundreds if not thousands to install the cable and I have no doubt BT would charge a suitably impressive rent for the equipment you install in their exchange and for the link into the phone network.
Which would probably make a tenner a month or what ever it is (don'r have a landline phone myself!) seem a bargin in comparrison
I was hoping by now there would be inexpensive two way sat for internet and phone and we wouldn't need a landline to an exchange miles away.
Running a copper wire seems so dated.
Come on sat providers get your act together.
Running a copper wire seems so dated.
Come on sat providers get your act together.
Satellite will never become a mainstream product. The lag between your dish and the satellite is too much for a lot of applications to handle. Satellite technology will have to change completely for it to become useful.
Originally Posted by gareth.davies:
“Satellite will never become a mainstream product. The lag between your dish and the satellite is too much for a lot of applications to handle. Satellite technology will have to change completely for it to become useful.”
“Satellite will never become a mainstream product. The lag between your dish and the satellite is too much for a lot of applications to handle. Satellite technology will have to change completely for it to become useful.”
It is fast though, i used to have it, no good for games or anything, but lightning fast at downloading/streaming, 5 years ago i was getting download speeds of 2000kbps, dunno know how fast it is now.
too expensive though, and id guess it was only so fast because hardly anyone else used it, if we all used it, it would probably be like dial up.
Well I hope there is still a future for two way sat for internet use and tel calls.
If you are out in the sticks there isn't much choice.
When I checked it out it was too expensive but who knows what will happen in the future ?
Anything is better than dealing with BT and their landlines.
If you are out in the sticks there isn't much choice.
When I checked it out it was too expensive but who knows what will happen in the future ?
Anything is better than dealing with BT and their landlines.
Originally Posted by gareth.davies:
“Satellite will never become a mainstream product. The lag between your dish and the satellite is too much for a lot of applications to handle. Satellite technology will have to change completely for it to become useful.”
“Satellite will never become a mainstream product. The lag between your dish and the satellite is too much for a lot of applications to handle. Satellite technology will have to change completely for it to become useful.”
Doesn't America offer this service?
2mbps over Satellite and tv and phone line at the same time. I'm sure They do.
EDIT: http://www.wildblue.com/
