Hi Bill, ADSL as the technician advised use copper line and is not good with RIM. ADSL is digital (ISDN technology) from exchange to your home using copper lines. RIM is analog to digital at exchange, then trasmitted over fibre, and then digital to analog at distribution box in your area where your phone is now connected. Two different 'last mile' technologies.
Suppliers of phone services prefer RIM as it is easier to install, simpler by technology, and less costly to maintain. But as far as internet customers are concerned there are two major disadvantages. First, when you connect to your ISP using 56Kbps modem your best download rate is 33Kbps because you lose speed at the two points of conversion. One at the exchange and another at the distribution box. Secondly, you cannot have your phone line and ADSL on the same line as ADSL uses ISDN technology, which is digital transmission on copper. Now, that you have your phone(s) on RIM, when ADSL is installed it will hang off copper lines and you end with two independent lines. The simplest would have been ADSL and your phone to hang off the same copper lines. Of course you can always ask to transfer your phone line to hang off the same copper lines as your ADSL which should have been done in the first place except that your ADSL supplier and your phone supplier do not talk to each other and would not be able coordinate the work and the type of connection. What I will do if I were in your situation is phone your ADSL supplier ASAP and advise of the situation. I'm pretty sure they can help as you have contracted them to supply the service and I assume they have accepted or committed. Good luck. Oscar Plameras http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html > Today I finally had the phones connected at our new house. > > I have the house wired for cable/data/phone with cat5 - 2 separate phone > cables - 1 for our part of the house and 1 for my Mother's part. > > Two cables have been laid and connected and both connections work. > > It has taken nearly 3 months to get these connections. > > When the technician had finishedtoday I asked if our line was ADSL > suitable. He said that both lines were pair-gained to a RIM at the "Tower", > but that there were plenty of copper connections available ( to the > exchange I assume), and that our line would be changed to full copper when > I requested that ADSL be connected. He said that the work order was for 2 > pair-gained connections. > > All of this despite the fact that during this whole process I kept > reiterating that I wanted a line suitable for ADSL, and the fact that my > Mother's old house, which we demolished 14 mths ago in order to build this > new house, had a full copper connection (verified by the technician today), > and that she retained her existing phone number by having it redirected to > our phone at our current residence. In other words, her phone was never > disconnected and therefore I believe that the full copper connection should > have been retained. > > Apart from signing up for an ADSL account with an ISP (not BigPond), is > there any other way to get a full copper connection to the exchange? ie > does a fax line require this? > > As we will not be taking up residence until we have sold our current home I > would like to get this phone line "fixed" in advance. > > The only other alternative that I can think of is to get ADSL connected, > then dial-up from one house to another and connect to the 'Net remotely. > Being a relative 'newbie' in many aspects of linux, I'm not sure if I > could manage this. > > On Monday I will be again calling my contact person at Telstra's complaints > line ( that is how we finally gained the connections), and any info/advice > re the above matters would be appreciated. > > Bill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
